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They replied, "You aren't from the Galil too, are you? Study the Tanakh, and see for yourself that no prophet comes from the Galil!"

They said this to trap him, so that they might have ground for bringing charges against him; but Yeshua bent down and began writing in the dust with his finger.

You judge by merely human standards. As for me, I pass judgment on no one;

Again he told them, "I am going away, and you will look for me, but you will die in your sin — where I am going, you cannot come."

This is why I said to you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not trust that I AM [who I say I am], you will die in your sins."

But as for me, because I tell the truth you don't believe me.

I am not seeking praise for myself. There is One who is seeking it, and he is the judge.

The Judeans said to him, "Now we know for sure that you have a demon! Avraham died, and so did the prophets; yet you say, ‘Whoever obeys my teaching will never taste death.'

Yeshua answered, "If I praise myself, my praise counts for nothing. The One who is praising me is my Father, the very one about whom you keep saying, ‘He is our God.'

but how it is that he can see now, we don't know; nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him — he's old enough, he can speak for himself!"

The parents said this because they were afraid of the Judeans, for the Judeans had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged Yeshua as the Messiah would be banned from the synagogue.

We know that God has spoken to Moshe, but as for this fellow — we don't know where he's from!"

So Yeshua said to them again, "Yes, indeed! I tell you that I am the gate for the sheep.

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

Yeshua answered them, "You have seen me do many good deeds that reflect the Father's power; for which one of these deeds are you stoning me?"

The Judeans replied, "We are not stoning you for any good deed, but for blasphemy — because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God ."

But if I am, then, even if you don't trust me, trust the deeds; so that you may understand once and for all that the Father is united with me, and I am united with the Father."

On hearing it, he said, "This sickness will not end in death. No, it is for God's glory, so that the Son of God may receive glory through it."

And for your sakes, I am glad that I wasn't there, so that you may come to trust. But let's go to him."

On arrival, Yeshua found that El‘azar had already been in the tomb for four days.