Revised Common Lectionary (Semicontinuous)

The God Whom You Do Not Know Sent Me To You

²⁵ Then some of the people-of-Jerusalem were saying, “Is not this the One Whom they are seeking to kill? ²⁶ And look— He is speaking in public, and they are saying nothing to Him. The rulers did not perhaps really know^[a] that this One is the Christ, did they? ²⁷ However, we know where this One is from. But when the Christ is coming, no one knows where He is from”. ²⁸ So Jesus cried-out while teaching in the temple and saying, “You both know Me and You know where I am from. And^[b] I have not come of Myself. However, the One having sent Me is true— Whom you do not know. ²⁹ I know Him, because I am from Him. And that One sent Me forth”. ³⁰ Therefore they were seeking to seize Him. And no one put his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

I Will Be With You a Short Time Longer, Then I Am Returning To God

³¹ But many from the crowd believed in Him. And they were saying, “When the Christ comes, He will not do more^[c] signs than the ones which this One did, will He?” ³² The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Him. And the chief priests and the Pharisees sent out officers in order that they might seize Him. ³³ So Jesus said, “I am with you a short time longer, and [then] I am going to the One having sent Me. ³⁴ You will seek Me, and will not find Me. And where I am, you are not able to come”. ³⁵ Then the Jews said to themselves, “Where is this One going to go that we will not find Him? He is not going to go to the Dispersion of the Greeks and teach the Greeks, is He? ³⁶ What is this statement that He said: ‘You will seek Me and will not find Me. And where I am, you are not able to come’?”