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

Jesus answered, “I am not possessed by a demon, but I honor my Father – and yet you dishonor me.

This is why the Father loves me – because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.

To the present hour we are hungry and thirsty, poorly clothed, brutally treated, and without a roof over our heads.

Now I will most gladly spend and be spent for your lives! If I love you more, am I to be loved less?

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.

For I was hungry and you gave me food, I was thirsty and you gave me something to drink, I was a stranger and you invited me in,

Then he said, ‘I will do this: I will tear down my barns and build bigger ones, and there I will store all my grain and my goods.

I tell you the solemn truth, we speak about what we know and testify about what we have seen, but you people do not accept our testimony.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

For I don’t understand what I am doing. For I do not do what I want – instead, I do what I hate.

Now I mean this, that each of you is saying, “I am with Paul,” or “I am with Apollos,” or “I am with Cephas,” or “I am with Christ.”

When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. But when I became an adult, I set aside childish ways.

(To my disgrace I must say that we were too weak for that!) But whatever anyone else dares to boast about (I am speaking foolishly), I also dare to boast about the same thing.

I have become a fool. You yourselves forced me to do it, for I should have been commended by you. For I lack nothing in comparison to those “super-apostles,” even though I am nothing.

And if we know that he hears us in regard to whatever we ask, then we know that we have the requests that we have asked from him.

Jesus said to him, “I will come and heal him.”

I am the bread of life.