John 8:21-32

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From below or from above

²¹So Jesus spoke to them once more.

“I am going away,” he said. “You will look for me, and you will die in your sin. You can’t come where I’m going.”

²²“Is he going to kill himself?” asked the Judaeans. “Is that what he means when he says we can’t come where he’s going?”

²³“You come from below,” Jesus said to them, “but I come from above. You are from this world, I am not from this world. ²⁴I told you that you would die in your sins; you see, that’s what will happen to you if you don’t believe that I am the one.”

²⁵“Who are you?” they asked.

“What I’ve been telling you from the beginning,” replied Jesus. ²⁶“There are plenty of things I could say about you, yes, and against you too! But the one who sent me is true, and I tell the world what I heard from him.”

²⁷They didn’t understand that he was talking about the father.

²⁸So Jesus said to them, “When you’ve lifted up the son of man, then you will know that I’m the one, and that I never act on my own initiative; I say exactly what the father taught me. ²⁹And the one who sent me is with me. He hasn’t left me alone, because I always do what pleases him.”