John 8:12-30

12Then 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.”

13So the Pharisees objected, “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!”

14Jesus 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.

15You people judge by outward appearances; I do not judge anyone.

16But 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.

17It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true.

18I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

19Then 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.)

21Then 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.”

22So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

23Jesus replied, “You people are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world.

24Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

25So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning.

26I 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.)

28Then 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.

29And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

30While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.