The Life of Jesus

Yeshua answered them, “Even if I do testify on my own behalf, my testimony is indeed valid; because I know where I came from and where I’m going; but you do not know where I came from or where I’m going.

You judge by merely human standards. As for me, I pass judgment on no one;

but if I were indeed to pass judgment, my judgment would be valid; because it is not I alone who judge, but I and the One who sent me.

And even in your Torah it is written that the testimony of two people is valid.

I myself testify on my own behalf, and so does the Father who sent me.”

They said to him, “Where is this ‘father’ of yours?” Yeshua answered, “You know neither me nor my Father; if you knew me, you would know my Father too.”

He said these things when he was teaching in the Temple treasury room; yet no one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.

Again he told them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin — where I am going, you cannot come.”

The Judeans said, “Is he going to commit suicide? Is that what he means when he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”

Yeshua said to them, “You are from below, I am from above; you are of this world, I am not of this world.

This is why I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not trust that I AM [who I say I am], you will die in your sins.”

At this, they said to him, “You? Who are you?” Yeshua answered, “Just what I’ve been telling you from the start.

There are many things I could say about you, and many judgments I could make. However, the One who sent me is true; so I say in the world only what I have heard from him.”

They did not understand that he was talking to them about the Father.

So Yeshua said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I AM [who I say I am], and that of myself I do nothing, but say only what the Father has taught me.

Also, the One who sent me is still with me; he did not leave me to myself, because I always do what pleases him.”

Many people who heard him say these things trusted in him.

So Yeshua said to the Judeans who had trusted him, “If you obey what I say, then you are really my talmidim,

you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”

They answered, “We are the seed of Avraham and have never been slaves to anyone; so what do you mean by saying, ‘You will be set free’?”

Yeshua answered them, “Yes, indeed! I tell you that everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

Now a slave does not remain with a family forever, but a son does remain with it forever.

So if the Son frees you, you will really be free!

I know you are the seed of Avraham. Yet you are out to kill me, because what I am saying makes no headway in you.

I say what my Father has shown me; you do what your father has told you!”