³⁹ You carefully study the Scriptures because you think they give you eternal life. They do in fact tell about me, ⁴⁰ but you refuse to come to me to have that life.

⁴¹ “I don’t need praise from people. ⁴² But I know you—I know that you don’t have God’s love in you. ⁴³ I have come from my Father and speak for him, but you don’t accept me. But when another person comes, speaking only for himself, you will accept him. ⁴⁴ You try to get praise from each other, but you do not try to get the praise that comes from the only God. So how can you believe? ⁴⁵ Don’t think that I will stand before the Father and say you are wrong. The one who says you are wrong is Moses, the one you hoped would save you. ⁴⁶ If you really believed Moses, you would believe me, because Moses wrote about me. ⁴⁷ But if you don’t believe what Moses wrote, how can you believe what I say?”