“I do not accept praise from people,

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

They do not belong to the world just as I do not belong to the world.

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

“I will not abandon you as orphans, I will come to you.

concerning sin, because they do not believe in me;

He confessed – he did not deny but confessed – “I am not the Christ!”

You will look for me but will not find me, and where I am you cannot come.”

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

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger’s voice.”

So they asked him, “Then who are you? Are you Elijah?” He said, “I am not!” “Are you the Prophet?” He answered, “No!”

The woman replied, “I have no husband.” Jesus said to her, “Right you are when you said, ‘I have no husband,’

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

The one who belongs to God listens and responds to God’s words. You don’t listen and respond, because you don’t belong to God.”

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

If I had not come and spoken to them, they would not be guilty of sin. But they no longer have any excuse for their sin.

So Pilate said, “Do you refuse to speak to me? Don’t you know I have the authority to release you, and to crucify you?”

He himself was not the light, but he came to testify about the light.

He came to what was his own, but his own people did not receive him.

But Jesus would not entrust himself to them, because he knew all people.