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You do this in order to preserve one item in the Law of Moses. So why are you upset with me because I made a man's whole body well on the Sabbath?
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Don't be nitpickers; use your head - and heart! - to discern what is right, to test what is authentically right."
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That's when some of the people of Jerusalem said, "Isn't this the one they were out to kill?
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And here he is out in the open, saying whatever he pleases, and no one is stopping him. Could it be that the rulers know that he is, in fact, the Messiah?
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And yet we know where this man came from. The Messiah is going to come out of nowhere. Nobody is going to know where he comes from."
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That provoked Jesus, who was teaching in the Temple, to cry out, "Yes, you think you know me and where I'm from, but that's not where I'm from. I didn't set myself up in business. My true origin is in the One who sent me, and you don't know him at all.
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I come from him - that's how I know him. He sent me here."
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They were looking for a way to arrest him, but not a hand was laid on him because it wasn't yet God's time.
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Many from the crowd committed themselves in faith to him, saying, "Will the Messiah, when he comes, provide better or more convincing evidence than this?"
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The Pharisees, alarmed at this seditious undertow going through the crowd, teamed up with the high priests and sent their police to arrest him.
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Jesus rebuffed them: "I am with you only a short time. Then I go on to the One who sent me.