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If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching is from God or I speak on my own.
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A person who speaks on his own is trying to win praise for himself; but a person who tries to win praise for the one who sent him is honest, there is nothing false about him.
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Didn't Moshe give you the Torah? Yet not one of you obeys the Torah! Why are you out to kill me?"
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"You have a demon!" the crowd answered. "Who's out to kill you?"
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Yeshua answered them, "I did one thing; and because of this, all of you are amazed.
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Moshe gave you b'rit-milah -- not that it came from Moshe but from the Patriarchs -- and you do a boy's b'rit-milah on Shabbat.
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If a boy is circumcised on Shabbat so that the Torah of Moshe will not be broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man's whole body well on Shabbat?
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Stop judging by surface appearances, and judge the right way!"
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Some of the Yerushalayim people said, "Isn't this the man they're out to kill?
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Yet here he is, speaking openly; and they don't say anything to him. It couldn't be, could it, that the authorities have actually concluded he's the Messiah?
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Surely not -- we know where this man comes from; but when the Messiah comes, no one will know where he comes from."