So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again, and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take your joy away from you.

“Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Instead your hearts are filled with sadness because I have said these things to you.

Then Jesus said, “I will be with you for only a little while longer, and then I am going to the one who sent me.

Who among you can prove me guilty of any sin? If I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me?

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

“Do not let your hearts be distressed. You believe in God; believe also in me.

Then I will ask the Father, and he will give you another Advocate to be with you forever –

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

“If the world hates you, be aware that it hated me first.

But now I am going to the one who sent me, and not one of you is asking me, ‘Where are you going?’

John answered them, “I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,

Jesus replied, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?”

Hasn’t Moses given you the law? Yet not one of you keeps the law! Why do you want to kill me?”

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”

You people are doing the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

Jesus replied, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.”