8:12 Then Jesus spoke out again, 1 “I am the light of the world. 2 The one who follows me will never 3 walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” 8:13 So the Pharisees 4 objected, 5 “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!” 6 8:14 Jesus answered, 7 “Even if I testify about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you people 8 do not know where I came from or where I am going. 9 8:15 You people 10 judge by outward appearances; 11 I do not judge anyone. 12 8:16 But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, 13 because I am not alone when I judge, 14 but I and the Father who sent me do so together. 15 8:17 It is written in your law that the testimony of two men is true. 16 8:18 I testify about myself 17 and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”
8:19 Then they began asking 18 him, “Who is your father?” Jesus answered, “You do not know either me or my Father. If you knew me you would know my Father too.” 19 8:20 (Jesus 20 spoke these words near the offering box 21 while he was teaching in the temple courts. 22 No one seized him because his time 23 had not yet come.) 24
8:21 Then Jesus 25 said to them again, 26 “I am going away, and you will look for me 27 but will die in your sin. 28 Where I am going you cannot come.” 8:22 So the Jewish leaders 29 began to say, 30 “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’” 8:23 Jesus replied, 31 “You people 32 are from below; I am from above. You people are from this world; I am not from this world. 8:24 Thus I told you 33 that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, 34 you will die in your sins.”
8:25 So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, 35 “What I have told you from the beginning. 8:26 I have many things to say and to judge 36 about you, but the Father 37 who sent me is truthful, 38 and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.” 39 8:27 (They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.) 40
8:28 Then Jesus said, 41 “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, 42 and I do nothing on my own initiative, 43 but I speak just what the Father taught me. 44 8:29 And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, 45 because I always do those things that please him.”