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Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is valid; for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
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In your law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is valid.
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I testify on my own behalf, and the Father who sent me testifies on my behalf."
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Then they said to him, "Where is your Father?" Jesus answered, "You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
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He spoke these words while he was teaching in the treasury of the temple, but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
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Again he said to them, "I am going away, and you will search for me, but you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come."
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Then the Jews said, "Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying, "Where I am going, you cannot come'?"
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He 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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I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that I am he."
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They said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "Why do I speak to you at all?
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I have much to say about you and much to condemn; but the one who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him."