²¹So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me and will die in your sin. Where I am going you cannot come!” ²²Then the Jews began to say,^* “Perhaps he will kill himself, because he is saying, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’ ” ²³And he said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are from this world; I am not from this world. ²⁴Thus I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

²⁵So they began to say to him,^* “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “What^m I have been saying to you from the beginning. ²⁶I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but the one who sent me is true, and the things which I heard from him, these things I say to the world.” ²⁷(They did not know that he was speaking to them about the Father.)

²⁸Then Jesus said,ⁿ “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will recognize that I am he, and I do nothing from myself, but just as the Father taught me, I say these things. ²⁹And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ³⁰While^* he was saying these things, many believed in him.

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Footnotes

*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
*The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here (“began to say”)
mLiterally “that which”
nSome manuscripts have “said to them”
*Here “while” is supplied as a component of the temporal genitive absolute participle (“was saying”)