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if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.
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`He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;
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hath not Moses given you the law? and none of you doth the law; why me do ye seek to kill?'
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The multitude answered and said, `Thou hast a demon, who doth seek to kill thee?'
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Jesus answered and said to them, `One work I did, and ye all wonder,
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because of this, Moses hath given you the circumcision -- not that it is of Moses, but of the fathers -- and on a sabbath ye circumcise a man;
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if a man doth receive circumcision on a sabbath that the law of Moses may not be broken, are ye wroth with me that I made a man all whole on a sabbath?
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judge not according to appearance, but the righteous judgment judge.'
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Certain, therefore, of the Jerusalemites said, `Is not this he whom they are seeking to kill?
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and, lo, he doth speak freely, and they say nothing to him; did the rulers at all know truly that this is truly the Christ?
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but this one -- we have known whence he is; and the Christ, when he doth come, no one doth know whence he is.'