So you testify that you approve of<n id="1" /> the deeds of your ancestors,<n id="2" /> because they killed the prophets<n id="3" /> and you build their<n id="4" /> tombs!<n id="5" />

be like people<n id="1" /> waiting for their master to come back from the wedding celebration,<n id="2" /> so that when he comes and knocks they can immediately open the door for him.

So you too, when you have done everything you were commanded to do, should say, &#8216;We are slaves undeserving of special praise;<n id="1" /> we have only done what was our duty.&#8217;&#8221;<n id="2" />p>

saying to them, &#8220;It is written, &#8216;<b><i>My house will be a house of prayeri>b>,&#8217;<n id="1" /> but you have turned it into <b><i>a deni>b><n id="2" /> <b><i>of robbersi>b>!&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

Not so with you;<n id="1" /> instead the one who is greatest among you must become like the youngest, and the leader<n id="2" /> like the one who serves.<n id="3" />

So<n id="1" /> they all said, &#8220;Are you the Son of God,<n id="2" /> then?&#8221; He answered<n id="3" /> them, &#8220;You say<n id="4" /> that I am.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">John answered them,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I baptize with water. Among you stands one whom you do not recognize,<n id="2" />

You yourselves can testify that I said, &#8216;I am not the Christ,&#8217;<n id="1" /> but rather, &#8216;I have been sent before him.&#8217;

Our fathers worshiped on this mountain,<n id="1" /> and you people<n id="2" /> say that the place where people must worship is in Jerusalem.&#8221;<n id="3" />

You people<n id="1" /> worship what you do not know. We worship what we know, because salvation is from the Jews.<n id="2" />

He was a lamp that was burning and shining,<n id="1" /> and you wanted to rejoice greatly for a short time<n id="2" /> in his light.p>

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

You study the scriptures thoroughly<n id="1" /> because you think in them you possess eternal life,<n id="2" /> and it is these same scriptures<n id="3" /> that testify about me,

How can you believe, if you accept praise<n id="1" /> from one another and don&#8217;t seek the praise<n id="2" /> that comes from the only God?<n id="3" />p>

<p class="bodytext">&#8220;Do not suppose that I will accuse you before the Father. The one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have placed your hope.<n id="1" />

You go up<n id="1" /> to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast<n id="2" /> because my time<n id="3" /> has not yet fully arrived.&#8221;<n id="4" />

So the Jewish leaders<n id="1" /> began to say,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, &#8216;Where I am going you cannot come.&#8217;&#8221;

<t /><p class="bodytext">Then Jesus said to those Judeans<n id="1" /> who had believed him, &#8220;If you continue to follow my teaching,<n id="2" /> you are really<n id="3" /> my disciples

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the<n id="1" /> Father;<n id="2" /> as for you,<n id="3" /> practice the things you have heard from the<n id="4" /> Father!&#8221;p>

You people<n id="1" /> are doing the deeds of your father.&#8221;p> <p class="bodytext">Then<n id="2" /> they said to Jesus,<n id="3" /> &#8220;We were not born as a result of immorality!<n id="4" /> We have only one Father, God himself.&#8221;