15. You judge me the way people judge other people. I don’t judge anyone.
16. But if I judge, my judging is true, because when I judge I am not alone. The Father who sent me is with me.
17. Your own law says that when two witnesses say the same thing, you must accept what they say.
18. I am one of the witnesses who speaks about myself. And the Father who sent me is my other witness.”
19. The people asked, “Where is your father?” Jesus answered, “You don’t know me or my Father. But if you knew me, you would know my Father too.”
20. Jesus said these things while he was teaching in the Temple area, near the room where the Temple offerings were kept. But no one arrested him, because the right time for him had not yet come.
21. Again, Jesus said to the people, “I will leave you. You will look for me, but you will die in your sin. You cannot come where I am going.”
22. So the Jewish leaders asked themselves, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he said, ‘You cannot come where I am going’?”
23. But Jesus said to them, “You people are from here below, but I am from above. You belong to this world, but I don’t belong to this world.
24. I told you that you would die in your sins. Yes, if you don’t believe that I AM, you will die in your sins.”
25. They asked, “Then who are you?” Jesus answered, “I am what I have told you from the beginning.
26. I have much more I could say to judge you. But I tell people only what I have heard from the one who sent me, and he speaks the truth.”