“I can of myself do nothing:  as I hear, I judge:  and my judgment is righteous; because I seek not mine own will, but the will of him that sent me.  If I bear witness of myself, my witness is not true.  It is another that beareth witness of me; and I know that the witness which he witnesseth of me is true.  Ye have sent unto John, and he hath borne witness unto the truth.  But the witness which I receive is not from man:  howbeit I say these things, that ye may be saved.  He was the lamp that burneth and shineth; and ye were willing to rejoice for a season in his light.  But the witness which I have is greater than that of John; for the works which the Father hath given me to accomplish, the very works that I do, bear witness of me, that the Father hath sent me.  And the Father that sent me, he hath borne witness of me.  Ye have neither heard his voice at any time, nor seen his form.  And ye have not his word abiding in you:  for whom he sent, him ye believe not.

“Ye search the scriptures, because ye think that in them ye have eternal life; and these are they which bear witness of me; and ye will not come to me, that ye may have life.  I receive not glory from men.  But I know you, that ye have not the love of God in yourselves.  I am come in my Father’s name, and ye receive me not:  if another shall come in his own name, him ye will receive.  How can ye believe, who receive glory one of another, and the glory that cometh from the only God ye seek not?  Think not that I will accuse you to the Father:  there is one that accuseth you, even Moses, on whom ye have set your hope.  For if ye believed Moses, ye would believe me; for he wrote of me.  But if ye believe not his writings, how shall ye believe my words?”

PLUCKING GRAIN ON THE SABBATH.

At that season Jesus went on the sabbath day through the grainfields; and his disciples were hungry and began to pluck ears and to eat, rubbing them in their hands.

But the Pharisees, when they saw it, said unto him, “Behold, thy disciples do that which it is not lawful to do upon the sabbath.”

But he said unto them, “Have ye not read what David did, when he had need and was hungry, and they that were with him:  how he entered into the house of God, and ate the showbread, which it was not lawful for him to eat, neither for them that were with him, but only for the priests?  Or have ye not read in the law, that on the sabbath day the priests in the temple profane the sabbath, and are guiltless?  But I say unto you, that one greater than the temple is here.  But if ye had known what this meaneth, ‘I desire mercy, and not sacrifice,’ ye would not have condemned the guiltless.”

And he said unto them, “The sabbath was made for man, and not man for the sabbath:  so that the Son of man is lord even of the sabbath.”

MANY CALLED AND FEW CHOSEN