Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

The final challenge

⁴⁴ “Anyone who believes in me,” shouted Jesus in a loud voice, “doesn’t believe in me, but in the one who sent me! ⁴⁵ Anyone who sees me sees the one who sent me! ⁴⁶ I’ve come into the world as light, so that everyone who believes in me won’t need to stay in the dark.

⁴⁷ “If anyone hears my words and doesn’t keep them, I’m not going to judge them. That wasn’t why I came. I came to save the world, not to judge it. ⁴⁸ Anyone who rejects me and doesn’t hold on to my words has a judge. The word which I have spoken will judge them on the last day.

⁴⁹ “I haven’t spoken on my own authority. The father who sent me gave me his own command about what I should say and speak. ⁵⁰ And I know that his command is the life of the coming age. What I speak, then, is what the father has told me to speak.”