Just as the living Father sent me, and I live because of the Father, so the one who consumes me will live because of me.

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

just as the Father knows me and I know the Father – and I lay down my life for the sheep.

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

And I know that his commandment is eternal life. Thus the things I say, I say just as the Father has told me.”

I tell you the solemn truth, whoever accepts the one I send accepts me, and whoever accepts me accepts 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.

Yet you do not know him, but I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you. But I do know him, and I obey his teaching.

If anyone hears my words and does not obey them, I do not judge him. For I have not come to judge the world, but to save the world.

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.

But I tell you the truth, it is to your advantage that I am going away. For if I do not go away, the Advocate will not come to you, but if I go, I will send him to you.

Then Jesus said, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and I do nothing on my own initiative, but I speak just what the Father taught me.

Jesus replied, “If I glorify myself, my glory is worthless. The one who glorifies me is my Father, about whom you people say, ‘He is our God.’

If anyone wants to serve me, he must follow me, and where I am, my servant will be too. If anyone serves me, the Father will honor him.

“What I am saying does not refer to all of you. I know the ones I have chosen. But this is to fulfill the scripture, ‘The one who eats my bread has turned against me.’

Children, I am still with you for a little while. You will look for me, and just as I said to the Jewish religious leaders, ‘Where I am going you cannot come,’ now I tell you the same.

I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father.

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

(I do not accept human testimony, but I say this so that you may be saved.)

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.