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So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me;
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if any man's will is to do his will, he shall know whether the teaching is from God or whether I am speaking on my own authority.
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He who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.
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Did not Moses give you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. Why do you seek to kill me?"
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The people answered, "You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?"
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Jesus answered them, "I did one deed, and you all marvel at it.
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Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man upon the sabbath.
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If on the sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the sabbath I made a man's whole body well?
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Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment."
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Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, "Is not this the man whom they seek to kill?
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And here he is, speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that the authorities really know that this is the Christ?