24The second time therefore they called the man who had been blind, and said unto him, Give the glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner. 25Then answered he and said, Whether this man be a sinner, I know not: one thing I do know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. 26Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eves? 27He answered them, I have already told you, and ye did not hearken: why do ye wish to hear it again? will ye also become his disciples? 28Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are the disciples of Moses. 29We know that God spake to Moses: but we know nothing of this man, whence he is. 30The man replied, and said to them, Now herein is something very surprising, that you know not whence he is, though he hath opened my eyes. 31Now we know that God doth not hearken to sinners: but if any man be a devout worshipper, and doeth his will, him he heareth. 32From the creation of the world hath it never been heard, that any man opened the eyes of one born blind. 33If this man were not from God, he could not do any thing. 34They answered and said unto him, Thou wast wholly born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. 35Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, said to him, Believest thou in the Son of God? 36The man answered and said, Who is he, Sir, that I might believe on him? 37Then said Jesus him, Thou hast even seen him, and he that is now talking with thee is the very person. 38Then he said, Lord, I believe: and worshipped him.
39And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they who see not may see; and they who see become blind. 40And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, Are we blind also? 41Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye should not have had sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin is permanent.
[CHAP. X.]
VERILY, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the sheep-fold, but getteth in some other way, that person is a thief and a robber. 2He that entereth by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. 3To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own peculiar sheep by name, and leadeth them forth. 4And when he bringeth out his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: because they know his voice. 5And a stranger will they not follow, but will fly from him: for they know not the voice of strangers. 6This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they knew nothing of the things which he spake to them.
7Therefore Jesus said unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that I am the door of the sheep. 8All, as many as have gone before me, are thieves and robbers: but the sheep hearkened not to them. 9I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved; and shall go in and out, and find pasture. 10The thief cometh not but to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they may have life, and that they may have it more abundantly. 11I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth down his life for the sheep. 12But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own property the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth; and the wolf seizes upon them, and disperseth the sheep. 13Now the hireling fleeth, because he is an hireling, and careth not for the sheep. 14I am the good shepherd, and know my own sheep, and am known of my own. 15As the Father knoweth me, so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep. 16And other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: these also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice; and there shall be one fold, one shepherd. 17Therefore doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I may take it again. 18No man taketh it from me, but I lay it down of myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. This commandment I have received from my Father.
19There was therefore a division again among the Jews, on account of these sayings. 20Then many of them said, He hath a devil, and is mad; why hearken to him? 21Others said, These are not the discourses of a demoniac. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
22Then was the feast of dedication at Jerusalem, and it was winter. 23And Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s portico. 24Then the Jews came about him, and said to him, How long dost thou keep our soul in suspense? If thou art the Messiah, tell us plainly. 25Jesus answered them; I told you, and ye believed not: the works which I do in the name of my Father, they bear witness of me. 26But ye believe not, for ye are not of my sheep, as I told you. 27My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: 28and I give unto them everlasting life and they shall never perish to eternity, and no person shall pluck them out of my hand. 29My Father, who gave them to me, is greater than all and no one shall pluck them out of my Father’s hand. 30I and my Father are one.
31Then the Jews again brought stones, in order to stone him. 32Jesus said unto them, Many good works have I shewed you from my Father; for which work of these are ye going to stone me? 33The Jews answered him, For a good work we do not stone thee; but for blasphemy; and that thou, being merely a man, makest thyself God. 34Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, “I said ye are gods?” 35If he called those gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken; 36do ye say of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest because I said, I am the Son of God? 37If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. 38But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him. 39Then sought they again to apprehend him and he departed out of their reach, 40and went again beyond Jordan, unto the place where John at first baptised; and there he abode. 41And many came to him, and said, That John indeed performed no miracle: but all things whatsoever John spake of this man were true. 42And many believed on him there.
[CHAP. XI.]
NOW there was a sick man, Lazarus, of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha. 2(It was the Mary who had anointed the Lord with the balm, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.) 3The sisters therefore sent unto him, saying, Lord, behold, he whom thou lovest is sick. 4When Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not for death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.