For just as the Father is self-existent, he has given self-existence to the Son,

Then Jesus said to them, "I tell you, if you do not eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you have no self-existent life.

Jesus answered, "I tell you, everyone who commits sin is a slave to sin.

Now a slave does not belong to a household permanently; but a son does.

As he said this he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and he put the clay on the man's eyes,

Now he was not self-moved in saying this, but as high priest for that year he was inspired to say that Jesus was to die for the nation??52 and not only for the nation but also for the purpose of uniting the scattered children of God.

I tell you, no slave is superior to his master, and no messenger is greater than the man who sends him.

I do not call you slaves any longer, for a slave does not know what his master is doing, but now I call you friends, for I have made known to you everything that I have learned from my Father.

Remember what I said to you: No slave is greater than his master. If they have persecuted me they will persecute you too. If they have observed my teaching, they will observe yours too.

"I have revealed your real self to the men you gave me from the world. They were yours and you gave them to me, and they have obeyed your message.

I have made your self known to them and I will do so still, so that the love which you have had for me may be in their hearts, and I may be there also."

Then Simon Peter, who had a sword with him, drew it and struck at the high priest's slave and cut off his right ear. The slave's name was Malchus.