¹⁶ But if I do judge, my decisions are true, because I am not alone. I stand with the Father, who sent me.^{(A) 17} In your own Law it is written that the testimony of two witnesses is true.^{(B) 18} I am one who testifies for myself; my other witness is the Father, who sent me.”^(C)

¹⁹ Then they asked him, “Where is your father?”

“You do not know me or my Father,”^(D) Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”^{(E) 20} He spoke these words while teaching^(F) in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put.^(G) Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.^(H)

Dispute Over Who Jesus Is

²¹ Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die^(I) in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”^(J)

²² This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?”