The Life of Jesus

Jesus answered and said to them, `And if I testify of myself--my testimony is true, because I have known whence I came, and whither I go, and ye--ye have not known whence I come, or whither I go.

`Ye according to the flesh do judge; I do not judge any one,

and even if I do judge my judgment is true, because I am not alone, but I and the Father who sent me;

and also in your law it hath been written, that the testimony of two men are true;

I am one who is testifying of myself, and the Father who sent me doth testify of me.'

They said, therefore, to him, `Where is thy father?' Jesus answered, `Ye have neither known me nor my Father: if me ye had known, my Father also ye had known.'

These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

therefore said Jesus again to them, `I go away, and ye will seek me, and in your sin ye shall die; whither I go away, ye are not able to come.'

The Jews, therefore, said, `Will he kill himself, because he saith, Whither I go away, ye are not able to come?'

and he said to them, `Ye are from beneath, I am from above; ye are of this world, I am not of this world;

I said, therefore, to you, that ye shall die in your sins, for if ye may not believe that I am he , ye shall die in your sins.'

They said, therefore, to him, `Thou--who art thou?' and Jesus said to them, `Even what I did speak of to you at the beginning;

many things I have to speak concerning you and to judge, but He who sent me is true, and I--what things I heard from Him--these I say to the world.'

They knew not that of the Father he spake to them;

Jesus, therefore, said to them, `When ye may lift up the Son of Man then ye will know that I am he ; and of myself I do nothing, but according as my Father did teach me, these things I speak;

and He who sent me is with me; the Father did not leave me alone, because I, the things pleasing to Him, do always.'

As he is speaking these things, many believed in him;

Jesus, therefore, said unto the Jews who believed in him, `If ye may remain in my word, truly my disciples ye are, and ye shall know the truth,

and the truth shall make you free.'

They answered him, `Seed of Abraham we are; and to no one have we been servants at any time; how dost thou say--Ye shall become free?'

Jesus answered them, `Verily, verily, I say to you--Every one who is committing sin, is a servant of the sin,

and the servant doth not remain in the house--to the age, the son doth remain--to the age;

if then the son may make you free, in reality ye shall be free.

`I have known that ye are seed of Abraham, but ye seek to kill me, because my word hath no place in you;

I--that which I have seen with my Father do speak, and ye, therefore, that which ye have seen with your father--ye do.'