²¹ So he said to them again, ^(A)“I am going away, and ^(B)you will seek me, and ^(C)you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” ²² So the Jews said, ^(D)“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

²⁵ So they said to him, ^(A)“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. ²⁶ I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ^(B)he who sent me is true, and I declare ^(C)to the world ^(D)what I have heard from him.” ²⁷ They did not understand that ^(E)he had been speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸ So Jesus said to them, “When you have ^(F)lifted up the Son of Man, ^(G)then you will know that ^(H)I am he, and that ^(I)I do nothing on my own authority, but ^(J)speak just as the Father taught me. ²⁹ And ^(K)he who sent me is with me. ^(L)He has not left me alone, for ^(M)I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ³⁰ As he was saying these things, ^(N)many believed in him.

²⁷ And just as ^(A)it is appointed for man to die once, and ^(B)after that comes judgment,

²⁰ Therefore, ^(A)we are ambassadors for Christ, ^(B)God making his appeal through us. We implore you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. ^21 (C)For our sake he made him to be sin ^(D)who knew no sin, so that in him we might become ^(E)the righteousness of God.