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But even if I did, my judgment would be true because I wouldn't make it out of the narrowness of my experience but in the largeness of the One who sent me, the Father.
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That fulfills the conditions set down in God's Law: that you can count on the testimony of two witnesses.
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And that is what you have: You have my word and you have the word of the Father who sent me."
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They said, "Where is this so-called Father of yours?" Jesus said, "You're looking right at me and you don't see me. How do you expect to see the Father? If you knew me, you would at the same time know the Father."
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He gave this speech in the Treasury while teaching in the Temple. No one arrested him because his time wasn't yet up.
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Then he went over the same ground again. "I'm leaving and you are going to look for me, but you're missing God in this and are headed for a dead end. There is no way you can come with me."
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The Jews said, "So, is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means by 'You can't come with me'?"
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Jesus said, "You're tied down to the mundane; I'm in touch with what is beyond your horizons. You live in terms of what you see and touch. I'm living on other terms.
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I told you that you were missing God in all this. You're at a dead end. If you won't believe I am who I say I am, you're at the dead end of sins. You're missing God in your lives."
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They said to him, "Just who are you anyway?"
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I have so many things to say that concern you, judgments to make that affect you, but if you don't accept the trustworthiness of the One who commanded my words and acts, none of it matters. That is who you are questioning - not me but the One who sent me."