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Gospel Reading - Witnesses to Jesus

³⁶but I have a greater witness than John. I refer to the miracles I do; these have been assigned me by the Father, and they prove that the Father has sent me. ³⁷And the Father himself has also testified about me, though not appearing to you personally, or speaking to you directly. ³⁸But you are not listening to him, for you refuse to believe me — the one sent to you with God’s message.

³⁹ “You search the Scriptures, for you believe they give you eternal life. And the Scriptures point to me! ⁴⁰Yet you won’t come to me so that I can give you this life eternal!

^41-42“Your approval or disapproval means nothing to me, for as I know so well, you don’t have God’s love within you. ⁴³I know, because I have come to you representing my Father and you refuse to welcome me, though you readily enough receive those who aren’t sent from him, but represent only themselves! ⁴⁴No wonder you can’t believe! For you gladly honor each other, but you don’t care about the honor that comes from the only God!

⁴⁵“Yet it is not I who will accuse you of this to the Father — Moses will! Moses, on whose laws you set your hopes of heaven. ⁴⁶For you have refused to believe Moses. He wrote about me, but you refuse to believe him, so you refuse to believe in me. ⁴⁷And since you don’t believe what he wrote, no wonder you don’t believe me either.”