[8:12] Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will not walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.”
[8:13] So the Pharisees said to him, “You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.”
[8:14] Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my testimony is true, for I know where I came from and where I am going, but you do not know where I come from or where I am going.
[8:15] You judge according to the flesh; I judge no one.
[8:16] Yet even if I do judge, my judgment is true, for it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father who sent me.
[8:17] In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true.
[8:18] I am the one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
[8:19] They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”
[8:20] These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.
[8:21] So he said to them again, “I am going away, and you will seek me, and you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
[8:22] So the Jews said, “Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?”
[8:23] He said to them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.
[8:24] I told you that you would die in your sins, for unless you believe that I am he you will die in your sins.”
[8:25] So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning.
[8:26] I have much to say about you and much to judge, but he who sent me is true, and I declare to the world what I have heard from him.”
[8:27] They did not understand that he had been speaking to them about the Father.
[8:28] So Jesus said to them, “When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am he, and that I do nothing on my own authority, but speak just as the Father taught me.
[8:29] And he who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to him.”
[8:30] As he was saying these things, many believed in him.