In most solemn truth I tell you that we speak what we know, and give testimony of that of which we were eye-witnesses, and yet you all reject our testimony.

On this account then the Jews were all the more eager to put Him to death--because He not only broke the Sabbath, but also spoke of God as being in a special sense His Father, thus putting Himself on a level with God.

Yet for fear of the Jews no one spoke out boldly about Him.

"Many things I have to speak and to judge concerning you. But He who sent me is true, and the things which I have heard from Him are those which I have come into the world to speak."

So Jesus added, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He. Of myself I do nothing; but as the Father has taught me, so I speak.

As He thus spoke, many became believers in Him.

The words I speak are those I have learnt in the presence of the Father. Therefore you also should do what you have heard from your father."

How is it you do not understand me when I speak? It is because you cannot bear to listen to my words.

But because I speak the truth, you do not believe me.

Which of *you* convicts me of sin? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me?

We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from."

Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant.

So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here," she said, "my brother would not have died.

It was not as a mere man that he thus spoke. But being High Priest that year he was inspired to declare that Jesus was to die for the nation,

The crowd that stood by and heard it, said that there had been thunder. Others said, "An angel spoke to him."

Isaiah uttered these words because he saw His glory; and he spoke of Him.

Because I have not spoken on my own authority; but the Father who sent me, Himself gave me a command what to say and in what words to speak.

And I know that His command is the Life of the Ages. What therefore I speak, I speak just as the Father has bidden me."

Do you not believe that I am in the Father and that the Father is in me? The things that I tell you all I do not speak on my own authority: but the Father dwelling within me carries on His own work.

But when He has come--the Spirit of Truth--He will guide you into all the truth. For He will not speak as Himself originating what He says, but all that He hears He will speak, and He will make known the future to you.

"All this I have spoken to you in veiled language. The time is coming when I shall no longer speak to you in veiled language, but will tell you about the Father in plain words.

"Ah, now you are using plain language," said His disciples, "and are uttering no figure of speech!

"But now I am coming to Thee, and I speak these words while I am in the world, in order that they may have my gladness within them filling their hearts.

"Do you refuse to speak even to me?" asked Pilate; "do you not know that I have it in my power either to release you or to crucify you?"

They spoke to her. "Why are you weeping?" they asked. "Because," she replied, "they have taken away my Lord, and I do not know where they have put him."