John 8:26-29
26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.” 28 Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. 29 And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
26 I have many things to say and to judge concerning you, but He who sent Me is true; and I speak to the world those things which I heard from Him.” 28 Then Jesus said to them, “When you lift up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He, and that I do nothing of Myself; but as My Father taught Me, I speak these things. 29 And He who sent Me is with Me. The Father has not left Me alone, for I always do those things that please Him.”
Jesus is God; the religious leaders, the Pharisees, could not grasp and would not accept this. Jesus told them the proof was in speaking God's truth and acting only as the Father directed with the ability given by God alone. So we need to imitate Christ's example - we must speak the truth from God's words (in love) and rely completely on Him with us and living in us (His Spirit) to please Him, and in so doing, to make disciples. This is how we see that "many believed in Him."
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