John 8:17-27

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: