John 8:12-31

¹²Jesus again addressed the people. “I am the light of the world,” he said. “The person who follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”

¹³“You are bearing testimony to yourself!” exclaimed the Pharisees, “your testimony is not trustworthy.”

¹⁴“Even if I bear testimony to myself,” answered Jesus, “my testimony is trustworthy; for I know where I came from, and where I am going; but you do not know where I come from, nor where I am going.

¹⁵You judge by appearances; I judge no one.

¹⁶Yet, even if I were to judge, my judgement would be trustworthy; because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.

¹⁷Why, in your own Law it is said that the testimony of two persons is trustworthy.

¹⁸I, who bear testimony to myself, am one, and the Father who sent me also bears testimony to me.”

¹⁹“Where is your father, then?” they asked. “You know neither me nor my Father,” replied Jesus. “If you had known me, you would have also known my Father.”

²⁰These statements Jesus made in the Treasury, while teaching in the Temple Courts. Yet no one arrested him, for his time had not then come.

²¹Jesus again spoke to the people. “I am going away,” he said, “and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin; you cannot come where I am going.”

²²“Is he going to kill himself,” the people exclaimed, “that he says — ‘You cannot go where I am going’?”

²³“You,” added Jesus, “are from below, I am from above; you are of this present world, I am not;

²⁴and so I told you that you would die in your sins, for, unless you believe that I am what I am, you will die in your sins.”

²⁵“Who are you?” they asked. “Why ask exactly what I have been telling you?” said Jesus.

²⁶“I have still much that concerns you to speak of and to pass judgement on; yet he who sent me may be trusted, and I speak to the world only of the things which I have heard from him.”

²⁷They did not understand that he meant the Father.

²⁸So Jesus added, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will understand that I am what I am, and that I do nothing of myself, but that I say just what the Father has taught me.

²⁹Moreover, he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone; for I always do what pleases him.”

³⁰While he was speaking in this way, many came to believe in him.

³¹So Jesus went on to say to those who had believed him, “If you remain constant to my message, you are truly my disciples;