18. He who teaches his own ideas is trying to get honor for himself. But he who tries to bring honor to the one who sent him—that person speaks the truth. There is nothing false in him.
19. Moses gave you the law, but none of you obey that law. Why are you trying to kill me?”
20. The people answered, “A demon has come into you. We are not trying to kill you.”
21. Jesus said to them, “I did one miracle, and you are all amazed.
22. Moses gave you the law about circumcision. (But really Moses did not give you circumcision. Circumcision came from our ancestors.) And yet you circumcise a baby boy on a Sabbath day.
23. This shows that a baby boy can be circumcised on a Sabbath day to obey the law of Moses. So why are you angry at me for healing a person’s whole body on the Sabbath day?
24. Stop judging by the way things look! Be fair, and judge by what is really right.”
25. Then some of the people who lived in Jerusalem said, “This is the man they are trying to kill.
26. But he is teaching where everyone can see and hear him. And no one is trying to stop him. Maybe the leaders have decided that he really is the Christ.
27. But we know where this man is from. Yet when the real Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from.”
28. Jesus was still teaching in the Temple. He cried out, “Yes, you know me, and you know where I am from. But I have not come by my own authority. I was sent by the One who is true. You don’t know him.
29. But I know him. I am from him, and he sent me.”
30. When Jesus said this, they tried to seize him. But no one was able to touch him. It was not yet the right time.
31. But many of the people believed in Jesus. They said, “When the Christ comes, will he do more miracles than this man has done?”
32. The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus. So the leading priests and the Pharisees sent some Temple guards to arrest him.
33. Then Jesus said, “I will be with you a little while longer. Then I will go back to the One who sent me.