Rejected by the Authorities

⁴⁵ Then the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why have you not brought Him?”

⁴⁶ The officers answered, ^(A)“No man ever spoke like this Man!”

⁴⁷ Then the Pharisees answered them, “Are you also deceived? ⁴⁸ Have any of the rulers or the Pharisees believed in Him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.”

⁵⁰ Nicodemus ^(B)(he who came to ^[a]Jesus ^[b]by night, being one of them) said to them, ^51 (C)“Does our law judge a man before it hears him and knows what he is doing?”

⁵² They answered and said to him, “Are you also from Galilee? Search and look, for ^(D)no prophet ^[c]has arisen out of Galilee.”

¹² Then Jesus spoke to them again, saying, ^(A)“I am the light of the world. He who ^(B)follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.”

Jesus Defends His Self-Witness

¹³ The Pharisees therefore said to Him, ^(C)“You bear witness of Yourself; Your witness is not ^[a]true.”

¹⁴ Jesus answered and said to them, “Even if I bear witness of Myself, My witness is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going; but ^(D)you do not know where I come from and where I am going. ^15 (E)You judge according to the flesh; ^(F)I judge no one. ¹⁶ And yet if I do judge, My judgment is true; for ^(G)I am not alone, but I am with the Father who sent Me. ^17 (H)It is also written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. ¹⁸ I am One who bears witness of Myself, and ^(I)the Father who sent Me bears witness of Me.”

¹⁹ Then they said to Him, “Where is Your Father?”

Jesus answered, ^(J)“You know neither Me nor My Father. ^(K)If you had known Me, you would have known My Father also.”

²⁰ These words Jesus spoke in ^(L)the treasury, as He taught in the temple; and ^(M)no one laid hands on Him, for ^(N)His hour had not yet come.