28. Don’t be surprised at what I’ve just said. A time is coming when all the dead will hear his voice,
29. and they will come out of their tombs. Those who have done good will come back to life and live. But those who have done evil will come back to life and will be judged.
30. I can’t do anything on my own. As I listen ⌊to the Father⌋, I make my judgments. My judgments are right because I don’t try to do what I want but what the one who sent me wants.
31. “If I testify on my own behalf, what I say isn’t true.
32. Someone else testifies on my behalf, and I know that what he says about me is true.
33. You sent people to John ⌊the Baptizer⌋, and he testified to the truth.
34. But I don’t depend on human testimony. I’m telling you this to save you.
35. John was a lamp that gave off brilliant light. For a time you enjoyed the pleasure of his light.
36. But I have something that testifies more favorably on my behalf than John’s testimony. The tasks that the Father gave me to carry out, these tasks which I perform, testify on my behalf. They prove that the Father has sent me.
37. The Father who sent me testifies on my behalf. You have never heard his voice, and you have never seen his form.
38. So you don’t have the Father’s message within you, because you don’t believe in the person he has sent.
39. You study the Scriptures in detail because you think you have the source of eternal life in them. These Scriptures testify on my behalf.
40. Yet, you don’t want to come to me to get ⌊eternal⌋ life.
41. “I don’t accept praise from humans.
42. But I know what kind of people you are. You don’t have any love for God.
43. I have come with the authority my Father has given me, but you don’t accept me. If someone else comes with his own authority, you will accept him.