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18 So the Jewish leaders tried all the harder to find a way to kill him. For he not only broke the Sabbath, he called God his Father, thereby making himself equal with God.

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33 They replied, “We’re stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God.”

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58 Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I am![a]

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Footnotes

  1. 8:58 Or before Abraham was even born, I have always been alive; Greek reads before Abraham was, I am. See Exod 3:14.

The Jewish leaders replied, “By our law he ought to die because he called himself the Son of God.”

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23 so that everyone will honor the Son, just as they honor the Father. Anyone who does not honor the Son is certainly not honoring the Father who sent him.

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22 Then the angel showed me a river with the water of life, clear as crystal, flowing from the throne of God and of the Lamb.

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Though he was God,[a]
    he did not think of equality with God
    as something to cling to.

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Footnotes

  1. 2:6 Or Being in the form of God.

Jesus and His Brothers

After this, Jesus traveled around Galilee. He wanted to stay out of Judea, where the Jewish leaders were plotting his death.

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Jesus Claims to Be the Son of God

16 So the Jewish leaders began harassing[a] Jesus for breaking the Sabbath rules.

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Footnotes

  1. 5:16 Or persecuting.

The Scattering of the Sheep

“Awake, O sword, against my shepherd,
    the man who is my partner,”
    says the Lord of Heaven’s Armies.
“Strike down the shepherd,
    and the sheep will be scattered,
    and I will turn against the lambs.

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No longer will there be a curse upon anything. For the throne of God and of the Lamb will be there, and his servants will worship him.

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22 I saw no temple in the city, for the Lord God Almighty and the Lamb are its temple. 23 And the city has no need of sun or moon, for the glory of God illuminates the city, and the Lamb is its light.

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23 Jesus replied, “All who love me will do what I say. My Father will love them, and we will come and make our home with each of them.

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54 Jesus answered, “If I want glory for myself, it doesn’t count. But it is my Father who will glorify me. You say, ‘He is our God,’[a]

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Footnotes

  1. 8:54 Some manuscripts read You say he is your God.

22 But you work on the Sabbath, too, when you obey Moses’ law of circumcision. (Actually, this tradition of circumcision began with the patriarchs, long before the law of Moses.) 23 For if the correct time for circumcising your son falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it so as not to break the law of Moses. So why should you be angry with me for healing a man on the Sabbath?

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19 Moses gave you the law, but none of you obeys it! In fact, you are trying to kill me.”

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Jesus replied, “Have I been with you all this time, Philip, and yet you still don’t know who I am? Anyone who has seen me has seen the Father! So why are you asking me to show him to you?

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And haven’t you read in the law of Moses that the priests on duty in the Temple may work on the Sabbath?

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