13So the Pharisees said to him, “You are just telling about yourself! Since there is no one else to verify these things that you say about yourself, we do not need to accept that what you say is true.”
14Jesus replied, “Even if I were the only one to say these things about myself, what I say is true, because I know that I came from heaven, and I know that I am going back to heaven. But you do not know where I came from or where I am going.
15You judge people according to human standards. The reason that I am here is not ◄to condemn people/to say that I will punish people► for their sins.
16But if I did judge people, what I decided would be correct, because I am not the only one who will decide those things. I and the one who sent me will both decide.
17It is written { Moses wrote} in your law that if at least two people testify that some event has happened, people should consider that what they say is true.
18I am telling you about myself, and the other one who is telling you about me is my Father who sent me. So you should believe that what we declare is true.”
19Then they asked him, “ If you have a father whom we can question about you, where is he?” Jesus replied, “You do not know who I really am. If you knew who I really am, you would know who my Father is also.”
20He said these things when he was in the Temple courtyard, near the place where the people put their offerings. This was also very close to the place where the Jewish council met. But no one seized him to arrest him, because it was not yet time MTY for him to suffer and die.
21Jesus also said to them, “I will soon be going away. Then at the end of your life you will seek me, but you will die without God forgiving your sins. Where I will go, you will not be able to come.”
22So the Jewish leaders said among themselves, “Is he going to kill himself? Is that the reason that he said, ‘Where I go, you will not be able to come’?”
John 8
John 8:13-22