So the Jewish leaders said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and you are not permitted to carry your mat.”

For the Father loves the Son and shows him everything he does, and will show him greater deeds than these, so that you will be amazed.

“I tell you the solemn truth, the one who hears my message and believes the one who sent me has eternal life and will not be condemned, but has crossed over from death to life.

“If I testify about myself, my testimony is not true.

“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.

So then they said to him, “What must we do to accomplish the deeds God requires?”

Jesus replied, “This is the deed God requires – to believe in the one whom he sent.”

So they said to him, “Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began complaining about him because he said, “I am the bread that came down from heaven,”

So Jesus’ brothers advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

When he had said this, he remained in Galilee.

The person who speaks on his own authority desires to receive honor for himself; the one who desires the honor of the one who sent him is a man of integrity, and there is no unrighteousness in him.

Jesus replied, “I performed one miracle and you are all amazed.

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

So the Pharisees objected, “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!”

(They did not understand that he was telling them about his Father.)

While he was saying these things, many people believed in him.

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples