Then said they unto him, Where is thy father? Jesus answered,
Ye neither know me, nor my Father: if ye had known me, ye should have known my Father also.
These words spake Jesus in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; and no man laid hands on him; for his hour was not yet come. Then said Jesus again unto them,
I go my way, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sins: whither I go, ye cannot come.
Then said the Jews, Will he kill himself? because he saith, Whither I go, ye cannot come. And he said unto them,
Ye are from beneath: I am from above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. I said therefore
[171]unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins.
Then they said unto him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith unto them,
Even the same that I said unto you from the beginning. I have many things to say and to judge of you: but he that sent me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I have heard of him.
They understood not that he spake to them of the Father. Then said Jesus unto them,