18. “I am One who witnesses concerning Myself, and the Father who sent Me witnesses concerning Me.”
19. Therefore they said to Him, “Where is Your Father?” יהושע answered, “You know neither Me nor My Father. If you knew Me, you would have known My Father also.”
20. These words יהושע spoke in the treasury, teaching in the Set-apart Place. And no one laid hands on Him, because His hour had not yet come.
21. Therefore יהושע said to them again, “I am going away, and you shall seek Me, and you shall die in your sin. Where I go you are unable to come.”
22. Then the Yehuḏim said, “Shall He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you are unable to come’?”
23. And He said to them, “You are from below, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world.
24. “Therefore I said to you that you shall die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He, you shall die in your sins.”
25. Then they said to Him, “Who are You?” And יהושע said to them, “Altogether that which I even say to you!
26. “I have much to say and to judge concerning you. But He who sent Me is true, and what I heard from Him, these Words I speak to the world.”
27. They did not know that He spoke to them of the Father.
28. So יהושע said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Aḏam, then you shall know that I am He, and that I do none at all of Myself, but as My Father taught Me, these words I speak.
29. “And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do what pleases Him.”
30. As He was speaking these words, many believed in Him.
31. So יהושע said to those Yehuḏim who believed Him, “If you stay in My Word, you are truly My taught ones,