12. Then Jesus spoke out again, “I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will never walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
13. So the Pharisees objected, “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!”
14. Jesus answered, “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people do not know where I came from or where I am going.
15. You people judge by outward appearances; I do not judge anyone.
16. But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.
17. It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.
18. I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
19. Then they began asking him, “Who is your father?” Jesus answered, “You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.”
20. (Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)
21. Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will look for me but will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come.”
22. So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”