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John 8:26

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

There is a lot more I could say to condemn you. But the one who sent me is truthful, and I tell the people of this world only what I have heard from him.”

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Servants don't know what their master is doing, and so I don't speak to you as my servants. I speak to you as my friends, and I have told you everything that my Father has told me.

I have much more to say to you, but right now it would be more than you could understand.

I told my followers what you told me, and they accepted it. They know that I came from you, and they believe that you are the one who sent me.

But Jesus told him, “I have spoken freely in front of everyone. And I have always taught in our meeting places and in the temple, where all our people come together. I have not said anything in secret.

I tell you for certain that we know what we are talking about because we have seen it ourselves. But none of you will accept what we say.

Jesus replied: I am not teaching something that I thought up. What I teach comes from the one who sent me.

As Jesus was teaching in the temple, he shouted, “Do you really think you know me and where I came from? I didn't come on my own! The one who sent me is truthful, and you don't know him.

“Who are you?” they asked Jesus. Jesus answered, “I am exactly who I told you at the beginning.

No one understood that Jesus was talking to them about the Father.

Instead, you want to kill me for telling you the truth that God gave me. Abraham never did anything like that.

God can be trusted, and so can I, when I say that our answer to you has always been “Yes” and never “No”.




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