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If anyone desires to do his will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is from God, or if I speak from myself.
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He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory, but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, the same is true, and no unrighteousness is in him.
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Didn't Moses give you the law, and yet none of you keeps the law? Why do you seek to kill me?"
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The multitude answered, "You have a demon! Who seeks to kill you?"
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Jesus answered them, "I did one work, and you all marvel because of it.
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Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers), and on the Sabbath you circumcise a boy.
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If a boy receives circumcision on the Sabbath, that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me, because I made a man every bit whole on the Sabbath?
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Don't judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment."
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Some therefore of them of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this he whom they seek to kill?
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Behold, he speaks openly, and they say nothing to him. Can it be that the rulers indeed know that this is truly the Christ?
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However we know where this man comes from, but when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."