For just as the Father has life in himself, thus he has granted the Son to have life in himself,

“I have revealed your name to the men you gave me out of the world. They belonged to you, and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your word.

And now, Father, glorify me at your side with the glory I had with you before the world was created.

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.

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.

Jesus replied, “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I have come from God and am now here. I have not come on my own initiative, but he sent me.

I made known your name to them, and I will continue to make it known, so that the love you have loved me with may be in them, and I may be in them.”

Then Jesus, while teaching in the temple courts, cried out, “You both know me and know where I come from! And I have not come on my own initiative, but the one who sent me is true. You do not know him,