36. “But I have a proof about myself that is greater than anything John said. The things I do are my proof. These are what my Father gave me to do. They show that the Father sent me.
37. And the Father who sent me has given proof about me himself. But you have never heard his voice. You have never seen what he looks like.
38. The Father’s teaching does not live in you, because you don’t believe in the one the Father sent.
39. You carefully study the Scriptures. You think that they give you eternal life. These same Scriptures tell about me!
40. But you refuse to come to me to have that life.
41. “I don’t want praise from you or any other human.
42. But I know you—I know that you have no love for God.