17 The Father loves me, because I give up my life, so that I may receive it back again.
18 No one takes my life from me. I give it up willingly! I have the power to give it up and the power to receive it back again, just as my Father commanded me to do.
19 The people took sides because of what Jesus had told them.
20 Many of them said, “He has a demon in him! He is mad! Why listen to him?”
21 But others said, “How could anyone with a demon in him say these things? No one like that could give sight to a blind person!”
22 That winter, Jesus was in Jerusalem for the Temple Festival.
23 One day he was walking in that part of the temple known as Solomon's Porch,