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19 So they said to him, “Where is your father?” Jesus answered, “You know neither me nor my Father. If you knew me, you would know my Father also.”(A) 20 He spoke these words while teaching in the treasury in the temple area. But no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.(B)

Jesus, the Father’s Ambassador.[a] 21 He said to them again, “I am going away and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin.[b] Where I am going you cannot come.”(C)

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Footnotes

  1. 8:21–30 He whose ambassador I am is with me. Jesus’ origin is from God; he can reveal God.
  2. 8:21 You will die in your sin: i.e., of disbelief; cf. Jn 8:24. Where I am going you cannot come: except through faith in Jesus’ passion-resurrection.