148. A Word to the People: “I Go…”—A Prediction of His Death. Jn. 8:21–32

Again Jesus said to them: I am going away, and you will seek me, and will die in your sins. Where I am going, you cannot come.

The Jews then said: Will he kill himself, that he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?

He said to them: You are from below, I am from above. You are of this world, I am not of this world. That is why I said to you that you will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins.

They said to him then: Who are you? Jesus said to them: Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. I have much to say and to judge concerning you. But he who sent me is truthful, and I speak to the world what I have heard from him.

They did not understand that he was speaking to them of the Father.

So Jesus said to them: When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am, and that I do nothing of myself. But as the Father taught me, I speak these things. And he who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, for I always do what is pleasing to him.

As he said these things, many believed in him. Jesus then said to the Jews who had believed in him: If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.