Jesus Predicts His Departure

²¹ Then He said to them again, “I’m going away;^(A) you will look for Me, and you will die in your sin.^(B) Where I’m going, you cannot come.”^(C)

²² So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill Himself, will He, since He says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’^(D)?”

²³ “You are from below,” He told them, “I am from above.^(E) You are of this world;^(F) I am not of this world.^{(G) 24} Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am He,^[a] you will die in your sins.”

²⁵ “Who are You?” they questioned.

“Precisely what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them. ²⁶ “I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the One who sent Me^(H) is true, and what I have heard from Him—these things I tell the world.”^(I)

²⁷ They did not know He was speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸ So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man,^(J) then you will know that I am^(K) He, and that I do nothing on My own.^(L) But just as the Father taught Me, I say these things. ²⁹ The One who sent Me is with Me. He has not left Me alone,^(M) because I always do what pleases Him.”

Truth and Freedom

³⁰ As He was saying these things, many believed in Him.