Jesus spoke to them again: ‘I am the light of the world. The one who follows me will certainly not wander in the darkness, but will have the life-giving light continuously.’
Then the Pharisees said to him: ‘You bear witness about yourself. Your witness is not true.’
Jesus replied: ‘And even if I bear witness about myself, my witness is true, because I know where I come from and where I go away to. You do not know where I come from or where I go away to. You judge according to the flesh, I do not pass judgment on anyone. Yet if I judge, my judgement is trustworthy, because I am not alone, but there’s me, and the Father, the one who sent me.
And in your Law it is written that the witness of two men is true. I am the witness about myself and the one who sent me, the Father, bears witness about me.
They said to him: ‘Where is your father?’
Jesus answered: ‘You neither know me nor my father, If you knew me, then you would know my father as well.
(These words he spoke in the Temple treasury, while teaching in the Temple grounds. And nobody arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.)
Thank you, dear Jesus,
for all you have given me,
for all you have taken away from me,
for all you have left me.
Thomas More (c.1478-1535)