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but if I were indeed to pass judgment, my judgment would be valid; because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the One who sent me.
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And even in your Torah it is written that the testimony of two people is valid.
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I myself testify on my own behalf, and so does the Father who sent me."
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They said to him, "Where is this `father' of yours?" Yeshua answered, "You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me, you would know my Father too."
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He said these things when he was teaching in the Temple treasury room; yet no one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.
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Again he told them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin -- where I am going, you cannot come."
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The Judeans said, "Is he going to commit suicide? Is that what he means when he says, `Where I am going, you cannot come'?"
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Yeshua said to them, "You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.
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This is why I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not trust that I AM [who I say I am], you will die in your sins."
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At this, they said to him, "You? Who are you?" Yeshua answered, "Just what I've been telling you from the start.
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There are many things I could say about you, and many judgments I could make. However, the One who sent me is true; so I say in the world only what I have heard from him."