And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning.

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

But now I am coming to you, and I am saying these things in the world, so they may experience my joy completed in themselves.

I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the Father who sent me is truthful, and the things I have heard from him I speak to the world.”

Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

Do you not believe that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me? The words that I say to you, I do not speak on my own initiative, but the Father residing in me performs his miraculous deeds.