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Why seek you to kill me? The multitude answered and said: Thou hast a devil. Who seeketh to kill thee?
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Jesus answered and said to them: One work I have done: and you all wonder.
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Therefore, Moses gave you circumcision (not because it is of Moses, but of the fathers): and on the sabbath day you circumcise a man.
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If a man receive circumcision on the sabbath day, that the law of Moses may not be broken: are you angry at me, because I have healed the whole man on the sabbath day?
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Judge not according to the appearance: but judge just judgment.
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Some therefore of Jerusalem said: Is not this he whom they seek to kill?
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And behold, he speaketh openly: and they say nothing to him. Have the rulers known for a truth that this is the Christ?
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But we know this man, whence he is: but when the Christ cometh, no man knoweth, whence he is.
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Jesus therefore cried out in the temple, teaching and saying: You both know me, and you know whence I am. And I am not come of myself: but he that sent me is true, whom you know not.
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I know him, because I am from him: and he hath sent me.
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They sought therefore to apprehend him: and no man laid hands on him, because his hour was not yet come.