John 8:19-21

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¹⁹ “Where is your father?” they said to him.

“You don’t know me,” replied Jesus, “and you don’t know my father! If you had known me, you would have known my father as well.”

²⁰ He said all this in the treasury, while he was teaching in the Temple. Nobody arrested him, though, because his time hadn’t yet come.

From below or from above

²¹ So Jesus spoke to them once more.

“I am going away,” he said. “You will look for me, and you will die in your sin. You can’t come where I’m going.”