Jesus said to the Pharisees "[1]I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin. Where [2]I am going you cannot come." So the Jews said, "He is not going to kill himself, is he, because he said, 'Where [3]I am going you cannot come'?" He said to them, ‘You are from below, [3a]I am from above; you are of this world, [3b]I am not of this world.He said to them, "You belong to what is below, I belong to what is above. You belong to this world, but I do not belong to this world. I told you that you would die in your sins, for you will die in your sins unless you believe that [3c]I am he.’That is why I told you that you will die in your sins." So they said to him, "Who are you?" Jesus said to them, "What I told you from the beginning. I have much to say about you in condemnation. But the one who sent me is true, and what I heard from him I tell the world." They did not realize that he was speaking to them about the Father. So Jesus said to them, ‘When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will realise that I am he, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that [4]I AM, and that I do nothing on my own, but I say only what the Father taught me. The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him." Because he spoke this way, many came to believe in him.
The Gospel of the Lord.
"The one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do what is pleasing to him." So, if we do what is pleasing to God, the Father, then God the Father is with us and will stay with us.
[1]I am going away/ [2]Where I am going/ [3]Where I am going/[3a] I am/[3b] I am/
[3c] I am/[4] I AM.
"I am going away * * * . Where I am going * * * * So Jesus said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will realize that I AM * * * ." "I AM" is God's name for Himself. It was the name He gave Moses from the burning bush. "Who will I say sent me?" "Say I AM WHO AM sent me."
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