22 So the Jews said, “Will He kill Himself, because He says, ‘Where I go you cannot come’?”
23 And He said to them, a“You are from beneath; I am from above. bYou are of this world; I am not of this world.
24aTherefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; bfor if you do not believe that I am He, you will die in your sins.”
25 Then they said to Him, “Who are You?” And Jesus said to them, “Just what I ahave been saying to you from the beginning.
26I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but aHe who sent Me is true; and bI speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.”
27 They did not understand that He spoke to them of the Father.
28 Then Jesus said to them, “When you alift up the Son of Man, bthen you will know that I am He, and cthat I do nothing of Myself; but das My Father taught Me, I speak these things.
29And aHe who sent Me is with Me. bThe Father has not left Me alone, cfor I always do those things that please Him.”
if ye believe not that I am he, ye shall die in your sins—They knew well enough what He meant (Mark 13:6, Greek; compare Matthew 24:5). But He would not, by speaking it out, give them the materials for a charge for which they were watching. At the same time, one is irresistibly reminded by such language, so far transcending what is becoming in men, of those ancient declarations of the God of Israel, "I AM HE" (Deuteronomy 32:39; Isaiah 43:10, Isaiah 43:13; Isaiah 46:4; Isaiah 48:12). See on John 6:20.
John 8:21-25
Then said Jesus again unto them, I go my way, etc.—(See on John 7:33).
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