John 8:18-28

18 I give witness about myself and the Father who sent me gives witness about me.
19 Then they said to him, Where is your Father? Jesus said in answer, You have no knowledge of me or of my Father: if you had knowledge of me you would have knowledge of my Father.
20 Jesus said these words in the place where the offerings were stored, while he was teaching in the Temple: but no man took him because his time was still to come.
21 Then he said to them again, I am going away and you will be looking for me, but death will overtake you in your sins. It is not possible for you to come where I am going.
22 So the Jews said, Will he take his life? Is that why he says, Where I go it is not possible for you to come?
23 And he said to them, You are of the earth; I am from heaven: you are of this world; I am not of this world.
24 For this reason I said to you that death will overtake you in your sins: for if you have not faith that I am he, death will come to you while you are in your sins.
25 Then they said to him, Who are you? Jesus said, What I said to you from the first.
26 I have much to say about you and against you: but he who sent me is true and what he has said to me I say to the world.
27 They did not see that his words were about the Father.
28 So Jesus said, When the Son of man has been lifted up by you, then it will be clear to you who I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but say as the Father gave me teaching.
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