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- "I can do nothing on My own initiative As I hear, I judge; and My judgment is just, because I do not seek My own will, but the will of Him who sent Me.
- "If I alone testify about Myself, My testimony is not true.
- "There is another who testifies of Me, and I know that the testimony which He gives about Me is true.
- "You have sent to John, and he has testified to the truth.
- "But the testimony which I receive is not from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved.
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- "He was the lamp that was burning and was shining and you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light.
- "But the testimony which I have is greater than the testimony of John; for the works which the Father has given Me to accomplish--the very works that I do--testify about Me, that the Father has sent Me.
- "And the Father who sent Me, He has testified of Me. You have neither heard His voice at any time nor seen His form.
- "You do not have His word abiding in you, for you do not believe Him whom He sent.
- "You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; it is these that testify about Me;
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- and you are unwilling to come to Me so that you may have life.
- "I do not receive glory from men;
- but I know you, that you do not have the love of God in yourselves.
- "I have come in My Father's name, and you do not receive Me; if another comes in his own name, you will receive him.
- "How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and you do not seek the glory that is from the one and only God?
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- "Do not think that I will accuse you before the Father; the one who accuses you is Moses, in whom you have set your hope.
- "For if you believed Moses, you would believe Me, for he wrote about Me.
- "But if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe My words?"
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