19. “Where is your Father?” they asked.“You don't know me or my Father!” Jesus answered. “If you knew me, you would know my Father.”
20. Jesus said this while he was still teaching in the place where the temple treasures were stored. But no one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.
21. Jesus also told them, “I am going away, and you will look for me. But you cannot go where I am going, and you will die with your sins unforgiven.”
22. The Jewish leaders asked, “Does he intend to kill himself? Is that what he means by saying we cannot go where he is going?”
23. Jesus answered, “You are from below, but I am from above. You belong to this world, but I don't.
24. That is why I said you will die with your sins unforgiven. If you don't have faith in me for who I am, you will die, and your sins will not be forgiven.”
25. “Who are you?” they asked Jesus.Jesus answered, “I am exactly who I told you at the beginning.