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“Where is your father?” they asked. Jesus answered, “Since you don’t know who I am, you don’t know who my Father is. If you knew me, you would also know my Father.”
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Jesus made these statements while he was teaching in the section of the Temple known as the Treasury. But he was not arrested, because his time had not yet come.
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Later Jesus said to them again, “I am going away. You will search for me but will die in your sin. You cannot come where I am going.”
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The people asked, “Is he planning to commit suicide? What does he mean, ‘You cannot come where I am going’?”
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Jesus continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You belong to this world; I do not.
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That is why I said that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I AM who I claim to be, you will die in your sins.”
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“Who are you?” they demanded. Jesus replied, “The one I have always claimed to be.
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I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but I won’t. For I say only what I have heard from the one who sent me, and he is completely truthful.”
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But they still didn’t understand that he was talking about his Father.
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So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man on the cross, then you will understand that I AM he. I do nothing on my own but say only what the Father taught me.
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And the one who sent me is with me—he has not deserted me. For I always do what pleases him.”