Why don’t you understand what I am saying? It is because you cannot accept my teaching.

“I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me –

Everything I have belongs to you, and everything you have belongs to me, and I have been glorified by them.

So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

But if you do not believe what Moses wrote, how will you believe my words?”

But you refuse to believe because you are not my sheep.

“If you love me, you will obey my commandments.

I can do nothing on my own initiative. Just as I hear, I judge, and my judgment is just, because I do not seek my own will, but the will of the one who sent me.

Your father Abraham was overjoyed to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

“Just as the Father has loved me, I have also loved you; remain in my love.

I have told you these things so that my joy may be in you, and your joy may be complete.

My commandment is this – to love one another just as I have loved you.

Jesus replied, “My kingdom is not from this world. If my kingdom were from this world, my servants would be fighting to keep me from being handed over to the Jewish authorities. But as it is, my kingdom is not from here.”

Jesus said to them, “My food is to do the will of the one who sent me and to complete his work.

For I have come down from heaven not to do my own will but the will of the one who sent me.

So Jesus replied, “My time has not yet arrived, but you are ready at any opportunity!

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples