Then answered the Jews, and said unto him, Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a devil?

Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

The Jews, therefore, said to him, 'Now we have known that thou hast a demon; Abraham did die, and the prophets, and thou dost say, If any one may keep my word, he shall not taste of death -- to the age!

Are you greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: who do you say that you are?

Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:

Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

So the Jews said to him, "{You are} not yet fifty years [old], and have you seen Abraham?"

Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"

Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but [it happened] so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the world [giving guidance through My word and works].”

When He had said this, He spat on the ground and made mud with His saliva, and He spread the mud [like an ointment] on the man’s eyes.

And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and washed, and came back seeing.

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, “He’s the one.” “No,” others were saying, “but he looks like him.”

He kept saying, “I’m the one!”

So they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

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.

So they brought to the Pharisees the man who had once been blind.

Now it was on a Sabbath day that Jesus made the mud and opened the man’s eyes.

Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.

Then some of the Pharisees said, “This Man [Jesus] is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner (a non-observant Jew) do such signs and miracles?” So there was a difference of opinion among them.

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

So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one who received sight.

And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?

So his parents answered and said, "We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind.

but as to how he now sees, we do not know; or who has opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him [and stop asking us]; he is of age, he will speak for himself and give his own account of it.”

So 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.

This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask 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 answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

So they said to him, “What did He [actually] do to you? How did He open your eyes?”

His answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples?

They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’ disciples.

We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where He’s from!”

The man replied, "This is a remarkable thing, that you don't know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see.

They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins [from head to foot], and you [presume to] teach us?” Then they threw him out [of the synagogue].

Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

"Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."

"You have seen Him," said Jesus; "and not only so: He is now speaking to you."

So he said, "Lord, I believe!" Then he worshiped Him.

And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

Some Pharisees, who were with Jesus, heard [Him say] these things, and replied, "Are we blind, too?"

Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

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

It's to him the gatekeeper opens the gate, and it's his voice the sheep hear. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

So when he gets his sheep all out, he goes on before them, and the sheep come on behind him, because they know his voice.

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger's voice."

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about; so he said to them again.

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

All so many as came were thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not hear them.

The thief {comes only} so that he can steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and have [it] abundantly.

The hired worker, who isn't the shepherd and doesn't own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, deserts the sheep, and runs away. So the wolf snatches them and scatters them,

because he's a hired worker, and the sheep don't matter to him.

As the Father knoweth me, even so know I the Father: and I lay down my life for the sheep.

I have other sheep [beside these] that are not of this fold. I must bring those also, and they will listen to My voice and pay attention to My call, and they will become one flock with one Shepherd.

Because of this the Father loves me, because I lay down my life so that I may take possession of it again.

No one takes it from me, I lay it down of my own accord: I have power to lay it down and also power to take it up again; I have my Father's orders for this.

Many of them were saying, “He has a demon and He’s crazy! Why do you listen to Him?”

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

And Jesus walked in the temple in Solomon's porch.

The Jews therefore surrounded him, and said to him, Until when dost thou hold our soul in suspense? If thou art the Christ, say so to us openly.

Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye believed not: the works that I do in my Father's name, they bear witness of me.

My Father, which gave them me, is greater than all; and no man is able to pluck them out of my Father's hand.

Then the Jews picked up stones again so that they could stone him.

Jesus said to them in answer, I have let you see a number of good works from the Father; for which of those works are you stoning me?

Jesus replied to them, "Is it not written in your law [Psa. 82:6], 'I said, you people are gods'?

If He called them gods, men to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be undone or annulled or broken),

Say ye of him, whom the Father hath sanctified, and sent into the world, Thou blasphemest; because I said, I am the Son of God?

If I am not doing My Father’s works, don’t believe Me.

But if I am doing [them], even if you do not believe me, believe the deeds, so that you may know and understand that the Father [is] in me and I [am] in the Father."

So they were seeking again to seize him, and he departed out of their hand.

So He departed again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing earlier, and He remained there.

And many came to him and began to say, "John performed no sign, but everything John said about this man was true!"

So, many people there believed in Jesus.

Now a certain man named Lazarus, from Bethany, became sick. Bethany was the town where Mary and her sister Martha lived. [See 11:18].

This was the Mary who had poured the perfume on the Lord and wiped His feet with her hair [See Matt. 26:6-13], whose brother Lazarus was sick.

So the sisters sent word to Him, saying, “Lord, he [our brother and Your friend] whom You love is sick.”

When Jesus heard it, He said, “This sickness will not end in death but is for the glory of God, so 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,

So when he heard that he was sick, then he remained in the place {where} he was two days.

Then after that, He said to the disciples, “Let’s go to Judea again.”

His disciples say unto him, Master, the Jews of late sought to stone thee; and goest thou thither again?

Jesus answered, 'Are there not twelve hours in the day? if any one may walk in the day, he doth not stumble, because the light of this world he doth see;

But if he walks at night he [might] stumble, because there is no light [to see by]. [Note: These words have a figurative meaning as Jesus is speaking about His mission in life].

He said these [things], and after this he said to them, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but I am going so that I can awaken him."

So the disciples said to him, "Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will get well."

though Jesus meant it of Lazarus's death: but they understood it of the natural rest in sleep.

So then Jesus told them plainly, “Lazarus is dead.

and I am glad {for your sake} that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him."

Then Thomas (the one who is called Didymus) said to his fellow disciples, "Let us go also, so that we may die with him."

So when Jesus came, he found that he had been in the tomb four days already.

and many of the Jews had come to see Martha and Mary, to comfort them concerning [the loss of] their brother.

So when Martha heard that Jesus was coming, she went out to meet him, but Mary was sitting in the house.

So Martha said to Jesus, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died.

And no one who is living and has faith in me will ever see death. Is this your faith?