Daily Discovery Bible Study

19 “Where is your father?” they asked him.

“You don't know me or my Father,” Jesus replied. “If you knew me then you would know my Father as well.” 20 Jesus explained this while he was teaching near the Temple treasury. Yet no one arrested him because his time had not yet come.

21 Jesus told them again, “I'm leaving, and you'll search for me, but you'll die in your sin. You can't come where I'm going.”

22 The Jews wondered out loud, “Is he going to kill himself? Is that what he means when he says ‘You can't come where I'm going’?”

23 Jesus told them, “You are from below; I am from above. You are of this world; I am not of this world.24 That is why I told you that you'll die in your sins. For if you don't trust in me, the ‘I am,’ you'll die in your sins.”

25 Then they asked him, “Who are you?”

“Exactly who I told you I was from the beginning,” Jesus replied. 26 “There's much I could say about you, and much I could condemn. But the one who sent me tells the truth, and what I'm saying to you here in this world is what I heard from him.”

27 They didn't understand that he was talking to them about the Father. So Jesus explained to them:

John 8: 19-27