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But even if I judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me.
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And even in your law it is written that the testimony of two men is true.
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I am the one who testifies concerning myself, and the Father who sent me testifies concerning me."
19
So they were saying to him, "Where is your father?" Jesus replied, "You know neither me nor my Father! If you had known me, you would have known my Father also."
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He spoke these words by the treasury [while] teaching in the temple [courts], and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.
Jesus Predicts His Death
21 So he said to them again, "I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!"
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Then the Jews began to say, "Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, 'Where I am going you cannot come.'"
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And he said to them, "You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.
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Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am [he], you will die in your sins."
25
So they began to say to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "{What} I have been saying to you [from] the beginning.
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I have many [things] to say and to judge concerning you, but the one who sent me is true, and [the things] which I heard from him, these [things] I say to the world."