¹⁴ Jesus said in answer, Even if I give witness about myself, my witness is true, because I have knowledge of where I came from and where I am going; but you have no knowledge of where I come from or of where I am going.

²⁸ I came out from the Father and have come into the world: again, I go away from the world and go to the Father.

³ Jesus, being conscious that the Father had put everything into his hands, and that he came from God and was going to God,

⁴² Jesus said to them, If God was your Father you would have love for me, because it was from God I came and am here. I did not come of myself, but he sent me.

¹⁰ Have you not faith that I am in the Father and the Father is in me? The words which I say to you, I say not from myself: but the Father who is in me all the time does his works.

¹⁴ And to the angel of the church in Laodicea say: These things says the true and certain witness, the head of God's new order:

¹⁹ It may seem to you that all this time we have been attempting to put ourselves in the right; but we are saying these things before God in Christ. For all things, dear brothers, are for your profit.

¹¹ I have been forced by you to become foolish, though it was right for my praise to have come from you: for in no way was I less than the chief of the Apostles, though I am nothing.

³¹ The God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, to whom be praise for ever, is witness that the things which I say are true.

⁸ Because I have given them the words which you gave to me; and they have taken them to heart, and have certain knowledge that I came from you, and they have faith that you sent me.

³⁶ Do you say of him whom the Father made holy and sent into the world, Your words are evil; because I said, I am God's Son?

¹⁵ Even as the Father has knowledge of me and I of the Father; and I am giving my life for the sheep.

²⁹ We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

³⁰ The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.

²⁷ However, it is clear to us where this man comes from: but when the Christ comes no one will have knowledge where he comes from.

²⁸ Then, when he was teaching in the Temple, Jesus said with a loud voice, You have knowledge of me and you have knowledge of where I come from; and I have not come of myself; but there is One who has sent me; he is true, but you have no knowledge of him.

²⁹ I have knowledge of him because I came from him and he sent me.

¹⁴ Now from the time when I was made ruler of the people in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year till the thirty-second year of Artaxerxes the king, for twelve years, I and my servants have never taken the food which was the right of the ruler.

¹⁵ But earlier rulers who were before me made the people responsible for their upkeep, and took from them bread and wine at the rate of forty shekels of silver; and even their servants were lords over the people: but I did not do so, because of the fear of God.

¹⁶ And I kept on with the work of this wall, and we got no land for ourselves: and all my servants were helping with the work.

¹⁷ And more than this, a hundred and fifty of the Jews and the rulers were guests at my table, in addition to those who came to us from the nations round about us.

¹⁸ Now the food made ready for one day was one ox and six fat sheep, as well as fowls; and once in ten days a store of all sorts of wine: but all the same, I did not take the food to which the ruler had a right, because the people were crushed under a hard yoke.

¹⁹ Keep in mind, O my God, for my good, all I have done for this people.

³ Now the man Moses was more gentle than any other man on earth.