21Then spake Jesus again to them, I am going away, and ye shall seek me, and shall die in your sin: whither I am going ye cannot come. 22The Jews said therefore, Will he kill himself? because he said, Whither I go, ye cannot come. 23And he said to them, Ye are from those beneath; I am from those above: ye are of this world; I am not of this world. 24I said therefore unto you, that ye shall die in your sins: for if ye believe not that I am, ye shall die in your sins. 25They said, therefore to him, Who art thou? And Jesus said to them, Assuredly the same as I am telling you. 26I have many things to speak and to decide concerning you: but he that sent me is true; and the things which I have heard from him I speak to the world. 27They knew not that he spake to them of the Father.
28Then said Jesus to them, When ye shall have lifted up on high the Son of man, then shall ye know that I am, and of myself have I done nothing; but as the Father hath instructed me, so I speak. 29And he that sent me is with me: the Father hath not left me alone; because I always do the things acceptable to him. 30As he spake these words, many believed on him.
31Then said Jesus to those Jews who believed on him, If ye abide in my word, assuredly ye are my disciples; 32and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. 33They answered him, We are Abraham’s seed, and never were in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, That we shall be made free? 34Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, That every one who committeth sin is the slave of sin. 35But the slave abideth not in the family for ever: but the son abideth for ever. 36If the Son therefore make you free, ye will be truly free. 37I know that ye are Abraham’s seed; yet ye seek to kill me, because my word has no place in you. 38I speak what I have seen with my Father: and ye do therefore what ye have seen with your father. 39They answered and said unto him, Our Father is Abraham. Jesus saith unto them, If ye were the children of Abraham, ye would have done the works of Abraham. 40But now ye seek to kill me, a man who hath told you the truth, which I have heard from God. Abraham did not so. 41Ye do the works of your father. They said unto him, We are not born of whoredom; we have one Father, even God. 42Then said Jesus unto them, If God was your Father, ye would have loved me: for I came out from God, and I am coming; neither indeed came I of myself, but he hath sent me. 43Wherefore do ye not understand my speech? because ye cannot hear my word. 44Ye are of your father the devil, and the lusts of your father ye will practise. He was a murderer from the beginning, and stood not fast in the truth, because truth was not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh what is peculiarly his own: for he is a liar, and the father of it. 45But because I tell you the truth, ye believe me not. 46Which of you can convict me of sin? Now if I speak the truth, why do ye not believe me? 47He that is of God heareth the words of God: ye therefore do not hear him, because ye are not of God.
48Then answered the Jews, and said to him, Do we not rightly affirm, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil? 49Jesus answered, I have not a devil; but I honour my Father, and ye dishonour me. 50But I seek not my own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. 51Verily, verily, I say unto you, If any man observe my saying, he shall never see death to all eternity. 52Then said the Jews to him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, If any man observe my word, he shall never taste of death to eternity. 53Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?
54Jesus answered, If I assume glory to myself, my glory is nothing: it is the Father who glorifies me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: 55yet have ye not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, that I know him not, I should be like you, a liar: but I know him, and observe his word. 56Your father Abraham exulted for joy that he should see this day of mine: and saw it, and rejoiced. 57Then said the Jews unto him, Thou hast not yet reached the age of fifty, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58Jesus said unto them, Before Abraham had a being, I Am. 59Then took they up stones to hurl at him: but Jesus was hid, and went out of the temple, passing through the midst of them, and so went away.
[CHAP. IX.]
AND as he passed along, he saw a man blind from his birth. 2And his disciples inquired of him, saying, Rabbi, who was in fault, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? 3Jesus answered, Neither hath this man been in fault, nor his parents; but it is in order to make manifest the works of God in him. 4I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no man can work. 5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6So speaking, he spat on the ground, and made mud with the spittle, and anointed with the mud the eyes of the blind man; 7and said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which signifies, Sent.) Then he went and washed, and came seeing.
8The neighbours therefore, and they who saw him formerly, that he was blind, said, Is not this the man who was sitting and begging? 9Some said, That this is he: but others, That he is like him: he himself said, I am he. 10When said they to him, How were thine eyes opened? 11he answered and said, A man called Jesus made mud, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: then I went, and washing received sight. 12They said to him, Where is he? He replied, I know not.
13They brought him to the Pharisees, who had before been blind. 14(Now it was the sabbath-day when Jesus made the mud, and opened his eyes.) 15The Pharisees therefore questioned him again, How he had received sight? And he told them, He put mud upon my eyes, and I washed, and do see. 16Then said certain of the Pharisees, This man is not from God, because he observeth not the sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a wicked man to do such miracles? And there was a division among them. 17They say to the blind man again, What sayest thou of him? that he opened thine eyes? Then he replied, That he is a prophet.
18Then the Jews did not believe that he had been blind, and received sight, until that they had called the parents of him who had received sight. 19And they questioned them, saying, Is this your son, of whom ye say, that he was born blind? how then doth he now see? 20His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: 21but how he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he himself will tell you about it. 22So spake his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews: for the Jews had already come to a resolution, that if any person acknowledged him Messiah, he should be excluded the synagogue. 23Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.