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.’”
23. Jesus replied, “You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.
24. Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”
25. So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning.
26. I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”
27. (They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)
28. Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.