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Those who teach their own ideas are trying to get honor for themselves. But those who try to bring honor to the one who sent him speak the truth, and there is nothing false in them.
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Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys that law. Why are you trying to kill me?"
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The people answered, "A demon has come into you. We are not trying to kill you."
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Jesus said to them, "I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
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Moses gave you the law about circumcision. (But really Moses did not give you circumcision; it came from our ancestors.) And yet you circumcise a baby on a Sabbath day.
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If a baby can be circumcised on a Sabbath day to obey the law of Moses, why are you angry at me for healing a person's whole body on the Sabbath day?
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Stop judging by the way things look, but judge by what is really right."
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Then some of the people who lived in Jerusalem said, "This is the man they are trying to kill.
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But he is teaching where everyone can see and hear him, and no one is trying to stop him. Maybe the leaders have decided he really is the Christ.
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But we know where this man is from. And when the real Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from."
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Jesus, teaching in the Temple, cried out, "Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. But I have not come by my own authority. I was sent by the One who is true, whom you don't know.