37. The Father who sent me also speaks for me, but you have never heard his voice or seen him face to face.
38. You have not believed his message, because you refused to have faith in the one he sent.
39. You search the Scriptures, because you think you will find eternal life in them. The Scriptures tell about me,
40. but you refuse to come to me for eternal life.
41. I don't care about human praise,
42. but I do know that none of you love God.
43. I have come with my Father's authority, and you have not welcomed me. But you will welcome people who come on their own.
44. How could you possibly believe? You like to have your friends praise you, and you don't care about praise that the only God can give!
45. Don't think that I will be the one to accuse you to the Father. You have put your hope in Moses, yet he is the very one who will accuse you.
46. Moses wrote about me, and if you had believed Moses, you would have believed me.
47. But if you don't believe what Moses wrote, how can you believe what I say?