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Jesus: By this time, the Sabbath keepers were really against me. People would not want to express freely about me, because they were afraid of the Sabbath keepers. But people were still curios about me, not knowing what to think or how to think about me.
GUY #1: Where is that guy?
GUY #2: Who? Jesus? I don’t know.
GUY #1: What do you think about him, anyway?
GUY #2: I think he’s great.
GUY #3: Naw, he’s an agitator.
JESUS (V.O.): But still when I give a speech. People were really amazed by me.
Guy #3: How can this guy be so educated without having a college degree?
Jesus: I am not a self-educated man; my instruction came from the One who sent me. If you truly want to do God’s will, you will be convinced as to whether this instruction is from God or not. I truly seek the credit of my sender.
Look, you’ve been given the Bible, haven’t you? It says, “Thou shall not kill.” So then, why are you trying to kill me?
THE CROWD #2: You’re crazy. Who’s trying to kill you?
JESUS (V.O.): Just because I did some work on the Sunday some of you are really upset. All right, now listen. The Bible tells you to baptize. So, you baptize people on the Sunday, the Sabbath day. My Father told me to heal. So, I heal people on the Sunday. There is nothing wrong with that, right?
THE CROWD #3: (talking among themselves) Isn’t this the fellow they’re trying to get rid of? Well, what do you know, he is preaching in public! Do you think the Sabbath keepers believe that this is our Leader? But we heard that nobody will know where the Leader comes from. We do know where this man is from!
Jesus: Okay, you know me and where I’m from. Yet you don’t know the True One who sent me. I do know the One from who I am and who sent me.
Jesus (V.O.): Even though there were hassle and bustle, a considerable number did come over to my side.
THE CROWD #1: Suppose our great Leader should arise, would he be able to do more than what this man is doing?
Jesus: I’ll be with you a little while longer, and then I’m going to my Father who sent me. You’ll look for me but won’t find me, because I’ll be where you can’t come.
THE CROWD #3: (speak to one another) Where do you think he’ll be going that we can’t find him? Does he plan to go to North Korea or something? What did he mean that we cannot find him?
Narrator: Now Jesus has moved to another location and preaching.
Jesus: (Shouting) If you are thirsty, come to me and drink. From your very heart, my life will overflow. Drink from these floods of life-giving water.
JESUS (V.O.): I was referring to the Spirit whom those who live my life were to receive. They haven’t received the Spirit because I still hadn’t brought things to a climax.
PERSON #1: (talking among themselves) There’s no doubt about it; this is the Man of God.
PERSON #2: Yeah!
PERSON #3: He is the heaven-sent Leader.
PERSON #2: Yeah!
PERSON #3: I don’t think he is qualified as the heaven-sent Leader.
PERSON #2: Yeah?
JESUS (V.O.): So the crowd was split over me. Some of them even wanted to kill me, but nobody put their hands on me.
