John 8:21–30

You Cannot Go Where I Am Going

²¹Again Jesus said to them, “I will go away; you will look for me, but you will die in your sins. You cannot go where I am going.”

²²So the Jewish authorities said, “He says that we cannot go where he is going. Does this mean that he will kill himself?”

²³Jesus answered, “You belong to this world here below, but I come from above. You are from this world, but I am not from this world. ²⁴That is why I told you that you will die in your sins. And you will die in your sins if you do not believe that ‘I Am Who I Am’.”

²⁵“Who are you?” they asked him.

Jesus answered, “What I have told you from the very beginning.^{u 26}I have much to say about you, much to condemn you for. The one who sent me, however, is truthful, and I tell the world only what I have heard from him.”

²⁷They did not understand that Jesus was talking to them about the Father. ²⁸So he said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that ‘I Am Who I Am’; then you will know that I do nothing on my own authority, but I say only what the Father has instructed me to say. ²⁹And he who sent me is with me; he has not left me alone, because I always do what pleases him.”

³⁰Many who heard Jesus say these things believed in him.