John 8:19-28

New International Version

¹⁹ Then they asked him, “Where is your father?”

“You do not know me or my Father,”^(A) Jesus replied. “If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”^{(B) 20} He spoke these words while teaching^(C) in the temple courts near the place where the offerings were put.^(D) Yet no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.^(E)

Dispute Over Who Jesus Is

²¹ Once more Jesus said to them, “I am going away, and you will look for me, and you will die^(F) in your sin. Where I go, you cannot come.”^(G)

²² This made the Jews ask, “Will he kill himself? Is that why he says, ‘Where I go, you cannot come’?”

²³ But he continued, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.^{(H) 24} I told you that you would die in your sins; if you do not believe that I am he,^(I) you will indeed die in your sins.”

²⁵ “Who are you?” they asked.

“Just what I have been telling you from the beginning,” Jesus replied. ²⁶ “I have much to say in judgment of you. But he who sent me is trustworthy,^(J) and what I have heard from him I tell the world.”^(K)

²⁷ They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father. ²⁸ So Jesus said, “When you have lifted up^[a] the Son of Man,^(L) then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing on my own but speak just what the Father has taught me.^(M)