John 8:21-30 (Gospel)
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- Then Jesus said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek Me, and will die in your sin. Where I go you cannot come.”
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- So the Jews said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you cannot come’?”
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- And He said to them, “You are from beneath; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
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- Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
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- Then they said to Him, “Who are You?” And Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been saying to you from the beginning.
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- I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”
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- They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father.
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- Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things.
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- And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
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- As He spoke these words, many believed in Him.