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John 8:12-47

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12Jesus spoke again to the people, telling them, “I am the light of the world. If you follow me you won't walk in darkness for you will have the life-giving light.”
13The Pharisees replied, “You can't be your own witness! What you say doesn't prove anything!”
14“Even if I am my own witness, my testimony is true,” Jesus told them, “for I know where I came from and where I'm going. But you don't know where I came from or where I'm going.
15You judge in a typically human way, but I don't judge anyone.
16Even if I did judge, my judgment would be right because I am not doing this alone. The Father who sent me is with me.
17Your own law states that the testimony of two witnesses is valid.
18I am my own witness, and my other witness is my Father who sent me.”
19“Where is your father?” they asked him. “You don't know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me then you would know my Father as well.”
20Jesus explained this while he was teaching near the Temple treasury. Yet no one arrested him because his time had not yet come.
21Jesus told them again, “I'm leaving, and you'll search for me, but you'll die in your sin. You can't come where I'm going.”
22The Jews wondered out loud, “Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means when he says ‘You can't come where I'm going’?”
23Jesus told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
24That is why I told you that you'll die in your sins. For if you don't trust in me, the ‘I am,’ you'll die in your sins.”
25Then they asked him, “Who are you?” “Exactly who I told you I was from the beginning,” Jesus replied.
26“There's much I could say about you, and much I could condemn. But the one who sent me tells the truth, and what I'm saying to you here in this world is what I heard from him.”
27They didn't understand that he was talking to them about the Father. So Jesus explained to them:
28“When you have lifted up the Son of man then you'll know that I am the ‘I am,’ and that I do nothing of myself, but only say what the Father taught me.
29The one who sent me is with me; he has not abandoned me, for I always do what pleases him.”
30Many who heard Jesus say these things put their trust in him.
31Then Jesus said to those Jews who trusted in him, “If you follow my teaching then you really are my disciples.
32You will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
33“We're descendants of Abraham! We've never been slaves to anyone,” they answered. “How can you say that we'll be set free?”
34Jesus replied, “I tell you the truth, everyone who sins is a slave of sin.
35A slave doesn't have a permanent place in the family, but the son is part of the family forever.
36If the Son sets you free, then you're truly free.
37I know you're Abraham's descendants, yet you're trying to kill me because you refuse to accept my words.
38I'm telling you what the Father has revealed to me, while you do what your father told you.”
39“Abraham is our father,” they answered. “If you really were children of Abraham, you'd do what Abraham did,” Jesus told them.
40“But you are trying to kill me now, because I told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham would never have done that.
41You're doing what your father does.” “Well we are not illegitimate,” they responded. “God alone is our father!”
42Jesus replied, “If God really was your father, you would love me. I came from God and now I am here. The decision to come wasn't mine, but the one who sent me.
43Why can't you understand what I'm saying? It's because you refuse to hear my message!
44Your father is the Devil, and you love to follow your father's evil desires. He was a murderer from the beginning. He never stood for the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies he reveals his true character, for he's a liar and the father of lies.
45So because I tell you the truth, you don't believe me!
46Can any one of you prove that I'm guilty of sin? If I'm telling you the truth, why don't you believe me?
47Anyone who belongs to God listens to what God says. The reason you don't listen is because you don't belong to God.”

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