We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him aforetime, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

Some said, That this is he: but others, That he is like him: he himself said, I am he.

So they said to him, "Then how does it happen that you can see?"

He answered, The man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to Siloam, and wash: so I went away and washed, and I received sight.

And they said to him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I do not know."

They bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.

Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes;

Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keepeth not the sabbath. But others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was division among them.

They say therefore unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, in that he opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight,

And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he was born blind? How then does he now see?

His parents answered and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

but how it is that he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age, ask him; he can speak for himself.

These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.

So they called a second time the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner.

He therefore answered, Whether he is a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

He answered. "I have told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you wish to hear it again? Can it be that you, too, wish to become his disciples?"

Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are the disciples of Moses: we know that God spake to Moses:

We know that God hath spoken unto Moses: but as for this man, we know not whence he is.

The man answered and said unto them, Why, herein is the marvel, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he opened mine eyes.

We know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he heareth.

Since the world began it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind.

If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."

Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, he said, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?

He answered and said, And who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him?

Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that speaketh with thee.

And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind.

And some of the Pharisees that were with him heard this, and said to him, Are we blind also?

Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

Verily, verily, I say unto you, He that entereth not by the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbeth up some other way, the same is a thief and a robber.

But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what it was that he was saying to them.

Therefore Jesus said unto them again, Verily, verily, I say unto you, that I am the door of the sheep.

All that came before me are thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

The thief cometh not, but that he may steal, and kill, and destroy: I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

He that is a hireling, and not a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, beholdeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and fleeth, and the wolf snatcheth them, and scattereth them :

I am the good shepherd; and I know those that are mine, and am known of those that are mine,

just like the Father knows me [intimately] and I know the Father [that way]. And I [am about to] give up my life for the sheep.

and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.

'Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

Others said, These sayings are not those of one that is possessed by a demon. Can a demon open blind people's eyes?

The feast of dedication took place at that time, in Jerusalem: it was, winter,

Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;

The sheep that are My own hear My voice and listen to Me; I know them, and they follow Me.

it is I that give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any one force them out of my hand.

That which my Father has given to me has more value than all; and no one is able to take anything out of the Father's hand.

Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;

The 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.

And Jesus responded to them, Is it not written in your law, that I said, Ye are gods?

how can you say that I blaspheme, I whom the father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, because I said I am the son of God?

If I am not doing the things that my Father is doing, do not believe me.

and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me is the Father, and I in Him.'

And many came to him, and said, That John indeed performed no miracle: but all things whatsoever John spake of this man were true.

so that many people there believed on him.

And it was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.

and Jesus having heard, said, 'This ailment is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified through it.'

Now Jesus loved Martha, and her sister, and Lazarus. So after he had heard that he was sick,

when, therefore, he heard that he is ailing, then indeed he remained in the place in which he was two days,

Then after that he said to the disciples, Let us go again into Judea.

"Rabbi," answered his disciples, "it was but just now that the Jews were trying to stone you, and are you going there again?"

Jesus answered, are there not twelve hours in the day? he that travels by day does not stumble, because he has the light of this world to see by.

These things he said, and after this he saith to them, 'Lazarus our friend hath fallen asleep, but I go on that I may awake him;'

but Jesus had spoken about his death, but they thought that about the repose of sleep he speaketh.

Then said Jesus to them plainly, Lazarus is dead. And I am glad for your sake I was not there, that ye may believe:

and I rejoice, for your sake, (that ye may believe,) that I was not there; but we may go to him;'

therefore said Thomas, who is called Didymus, to the fellow-disciples, 'We may go -- we also, that we may die with him,'

Then Jesus coming found that he had been four days in the tomb.

and many of the Jews had come unto Martha and Mary, that they might comfort them concerning their brother;

Martha, therefore, when she heard that Jesus doth come, met him, and Mary kept sitting in the house.

but even now, I have known that whatever thou mayest ask of God, God will give to thee;'

Martha saith to him, 'I have known that he will rise again, in the rising again in the last day;'

Jesus said to her, I am the resurrection and the life; he that believes in me, even if he has died, shall live,

And every one that is alive, and believeth in me, shall never die.

believest thou this?' she saith to him, 'Yes, sir, I have believed that thou art the Christ, the Son of God, who is coming to the world.'

She, when she heard that, rises up quickly and comes to him.

Now Jesus was not yet come into the town, but was in that place where Martha met him.

the Jews, therefore, who were with her in the house, and were comforting her, having seen Mary that she rose up quickly and went forth, followed her, saying -- 'She doth go away to the tomb, that she may weep there.'

Jesus therefore, when He saw her weeping, and the Jews also weeping, that came with her, groaned in spirit and was troubled.

and certain of them said, 'Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'

Jesus saith, Take ye away the stone. Martha, the sister of him that was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time the body decayeth; for he hath been dead four days.

Jesus told her, "I told you that if you believed you would see God's glory, didn't I?"

They took away, therefore, the stone where the dead was laid, and Jesus lifted his eyes upwards, and said, 'Father, I thank Thee, that Thou didst hear me;

Then Jesus looked upward and said, "Father, I thank you for hearing me. I know that you always hear me, but I have said this for the sake of the crowd standing here, so that they may believe that you sent me."

He that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with grave-clothes; and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

Many therefore of the Jews, who came to Mary and beheld that which he did, believed on him.

The High-priests and Pharisees, therefore, brought together a high-council, and were saying - What are we to do, in that, this man, doeth, many signs?

"What are we going to do?" they said, "now that this man is performing many signs?" If we leave him alone, this way, every one will believe on him, and the Romans will come and rob us of both our sacred place and of our people."

But one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, told them, "You don't know anything!

You don't realize that it is better for you to have one man die for the people than to have the whole nation destroyed."

Now he did not say this on his own initiative. As high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus would die for the nation,

and not only for the nation, but that he would also gather into one the children of God who were scattered abroad.

So from that day on they resolved to put him to death.

For that reason Jesus no longer walked openly among the Jews, but left there and went to the district that borders on the uninhabited wilderness, to a town called Ephraim; and He stayed there with the disciples.

And the passover of the Jews was nigh, and many went up to Jerusalem out of the country before the passover, that they might purify themselves;

they were seeking, therefore, Jesus, and said one with another, standing in the temple, 'What doth appear to you -- that he may not come to the feast?'

Now the high priests and the Pharisees had given orders that whoever knew where he was should tell them so that they could arrest him.

Then they made him a supper there, and Martha served; but Lazarus was one of those that reclined with him.

but Mary taking a pound of the oil of spikenard which was very costly, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped them with her hair: so that the house was filled with the odour of the perfume.