³⁵ The Father loves the Son^(A) and has given all things into his hands.^(B)

³⁸ For I have come down from heaven,^(A) not to do my own will, but the will of him^(B) who sent me.

¹⁶ Jesus answered them, “My teaching isn’t mine but is from the one who sent me.^(A)

²⁸ As he was teaching in the temple,^(A) Jesus cried out, “You know me and you know where I am from. Yet I have not come on my own, but the one who sent me^(B) is true. You don’t know him;^(C)

²⁶ “I have many things to say and to judge about you, but the one who sent me^(A) is true, and what I have heard from him—these things I tell the world.”^(B)

²⁷ They did not know he was speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸ So Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man,^(C) then you will know that I am^(D) he, and that I do nothing on my own.^(E) But just as the Father taught me, I say these things. ²⁹ The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone,^(F) because I always do what pleases him.”

Truth and Freedom

³⁰ As he was saying these things, many believed in him.

³¹ Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, “If you continue in my word,^[a](G) you really are my disciples. ³² You will know the truth,^(H) and the truth will set you free.”

³³ “We are descendants^[b] of Abraham,”^(I) they answered him, “and we have never been enslaved to anyone. How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”

³⁴ Jesus responded, “Truly I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.^{(J) 35} A slave does not remain in the household forever,^(K) but a son does remain forever.^{(L) 36} So if the Son sets you free, you really will be free. ³⁷ I know you are descendants of Abraham,^(M) but you are trying to kill me because my word has no place among you. ³⁸ I speak what I have seen^(N) in the presence of the Father; ^[c](O) so then, you do what you have heard from your father.”

³⁹ “Our father is Abraham,” they replied.

“If you were Abraham’s children,” Jesus told them, “you would do what Abraham did.^{(P) 40} But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth^(Q) that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this. ⁴¹ You’re doing what your father does.”^(R)

“We weren’t born^(S) of sexual immorality,”^(T) they said. “We have one Father—God.”^(U)

⁴² Jesus said to them, “If God were your Father, you would love me,^(V) because I came from God^(W) and I am here. For I didn’t come on my own, but he sent me.

¹⁸ No one takes it from me, but I lay it down on my own. I have the right to lay it down, and I have the right to take it up again. I have received this command from my Father.”^(A)

³⁰ I and the Father are one.”^(A)

³⁶ do you say, ‘You are blaspheming’ to the one the Father set apart and sent into the world, because I said: I am the Son of God?^{(A) 37} If I am not doing my Father’s works,^(B) don’t believe me. ³⁸ But if I am doing them and you don’t believe me, believe the works. This way you will know and understand^[a] that the Father is in me and I in the Father.”^(C)

⁴⁹ For I have not spoken on my own, but the Father^(A) himself who sent me has given me a command to say everything I have said. ⁵⁰ I know that his command is eternal life.^(B) So the things that I speak, I speak just as the Father has told me.”^(C)