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"No," Jesus answered, "even though I do testify on my own behalf, what I say is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. You do not know where I came from or where I am going.
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You make judgments in a purely human way; I pass judgment on no one.
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But if I were to do so, my judgment would be true, because I am not alone in this; the Father who sent me is with me.
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It is written in your Law that when two witnesses agree, what they say is true.
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I testify on my own behalf, and the Father who sent me also testifies on my behalf."
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"Where is your father?" they asked him. "You know neither me nor my Father," Jesus answered. "If you knew me, you would know my Father also."
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Jesus said all this as he taught in the Temple, in the room where the offering boxes were placed. And no one arrested him, because his hour had not come.
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Again Jesus said to them, "I will go away; you will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot go where I am going."
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So the Jewish authorities said, "He says that we cannot go where he is going. Does this mean that he will kill himself?"
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Jesus answered, "You belong to this world here below, but I come from above. You are from this world, but I am not from this world.
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That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. And you will die in your sins if you do not believe that "I Am Who I Am'."