38. The Father’s teaching does not live in you, because you don’t believe in the one the Father sent.
39. You carefully study the Scriptures. You think that they give you eternal life. These same Scriptures tell about me!
40. But you refuse to come to me to have that life.
41. “I don’t want praise from you or any other human.
42. But I know you—I know that you have no love for God.
43. I have come from my Father and speak for him, but you don’t accept me. But when other people come speaking only for themselves, you accept them.
44. You like to have praise from each other. But you never try to get the praise that comes from the only God. So how can you believe?