John 8:21–30

JESUS PREDICTS HIS DEPARTURE

²¹Then he said to them again, “I’m going away;^ae you will look for me, and you will die in your sin.^af Where I’m going, you cannot come.”^ag

²²So the Jews said again, “He won’t kill himself, will he, since he says, ‘Where I’m going, you cannot come’^ah?”

²³“You are from below,” he told them, “I am from above.^ai You are of this world;^aj I am not of this world.^{ak 24}Therefore I told you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

²⁵“Who are you?” they questioned.

“Exactly what I’ve been telling you from the very beginning,” Jesus told them. ²⁶“I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me^al is true, and what I have heard from him—these things I tell the world.”^am

²⁷They did not know he was speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man,^an then you will know that I am^ao he, and that I do nothing on my own.^ap But just as the Father taught me, I say these things. ²⁹The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone,^aq because I always do what pleases him.”

TRUTH AND FREEDOM

³⁰As he was saying these things, many believed in him.