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.”

So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

Furthermore, the Father does not judge anyone, but has assigned all judgment to the Son,

I testify about myself and the Father who sent me testifies about me.”

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

concerning righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will see me no longer;

If I do not perform the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

For the Father himself loves you, because you have loved me and have believed that I came from God.

The person who does not love me does not obey my words. And the word you hear is not mine, but the Father’s who sent me.

But a time is coming – and now is here – when the true worshipers will worship the Father in spirit and truth, for the Father seeks such people to be his worshipers.

“But I have a testimony greater than that from John. For the deeds that the Father has assigned me to complete – the deeds I am now doing – testify about me that the Father has sent me.

You heard me say to you, ‘I am going away and I am coming back to you.’ If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I am.

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

Jesus replied, “I told you and you do not believe. The deeds I do in my Father’s name testify about me.

So Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may come to know and understand that I am in the Father and the Father is in me.”

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

And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.

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

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