I Am the Light of the World
12lAgain Jesus spoke to them, saying, m“I am the light of the world. Whoever nfollows me will not owalk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” 13So the Pharisees said to him, p“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” 14Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, qmy testimony is true, for I know rwhere I came from and swhere I am going, but tyou do not know where I come from or where I am going. 15uYou judge according to the flesh; vI judge no one. 16Yet even if I do judge, wmy judgment is true, for xit is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father1 who sent me. 17yIn your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. 18I am the one who bears witness about myself, and zthe Father who sent me bears witness about me.” 19They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, a“You know neither me nor my Father. bIf you knew me, you would know my Father also.” 20These words he spoke in cthe treasury, as he taught in the temple; but dno one arrested him, because ehis hour had not yet come.
21So he said to them again, f“I am going away, and gyou will seek me, and hyou will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” 22So the Jews said, i“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” 23He said to them, j“You are from below; I am from above. kYou are of this world; lI am not of this world. 24I told you that you mwould die in your sins, for nunless you believe that oI am he you will die in your sins.” 25So they said to him, p“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. 26I have much to say about you and much to judge, but qhe who sent me is true, and I declare rto the world swhat I have heard from him.” 27They did not understand that the had been speaking to them about the Father. 28So Jesus said to them, “When you have ulifted up the Son of Man, vthen you will know that wI am he, and that xI do nothing on my own authority, but yspeak just as the Father taught me. 29And zhe who sent me is with me. zHe has not left me alone, for aI always do the things that are pleasing to him.” 30As he was saying these things, bmany believed in him.
The Truth Will Set You Free
31So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, c“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, 32and you will dknow the truth, and the truth ewill set you free.” 33They answered him, f“We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”
34Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, geveryone who practices sin is a slave2 to sin. 35hThe slave does not remain in the house forever; ithe son remains forever. 36So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. 37I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet jyou seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. 38kI speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard lfrom your father.”
You Are of Your Father the Devil
39They answered him, m“Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, n“If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, 40but now oyou seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth pthat I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. 41You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, q“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have rone Father—even God.” 42Jesus said to them, s“If God were your Father, you would love me, for tI came from God and uI am here. vI came not of my own accord, but whe sent me. 43xWhy do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot ybear to hear my word. 44zYou are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. aHe was a murderer from the beginning, and bdoes not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. cWhen he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. 45But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. 46Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? 47dWhoever is of God hears the words of God. eThe reason why you do not hear them is that fyou are not of God.”
Before Abraham Was, I Am
48The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and ghave a demon?” 49Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but hI honor my Father, and you dishonor me. 50Yet iI do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge. 51Truly, truly, jI say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never ksee death.” 52The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! lAbraham died, as did the prophets, yet myou say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never ntaste death.’ 53oAre you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?” 54Jesus answered, p“If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. qIt is my Father who glorifies me, rof whom you say, ‘He is our God.’3 55But syou have not known him. tI know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be ua liar vlike you, but I do know him and I keep his word. 56wYour father Abraham xrejoiced ythat he would see my day. zHe saw it and was glad.” 57So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”4 58Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, aI am.” 59So bthey picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.
“Before Abraham Was, I AM”
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