Jesus Speaks for the Father

Jesus Speaks for the Father
John 8:23-30( NLT)

Later Jesus said to them again "I am going away. You will search for me and die in your sin. You cannot come where I am going."

The Jewish leaders asked, "Is he planning to commit suicide? What does he mean, 'You cannot come where I am going'?"

Then he said to them, "You are from below, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not. That is why I said that you will die in yours sins, for unless you believe that I am who I say I am, you will die in your sins."

Tell us who you are," they demanded.

Jesus replied, "I am the one I have always claimed to be." I have much to say about you and much to condemn, but I won't. For I say only what I have heard from the one who sent me, and he is true." But they still didn't understand that he was talking to them about his Father.

So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man on the cross, then you will realize that I am he and that I do nothing on my own, but I speak what the Father taught me. And the one who sent me is with me-he has not deserted me. For I always do those things that are pleasing to him? Then many who heard him say these things believed in him.