Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God might be displayed and illustrated in him.

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

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.

'Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;

Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people?

Others said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he .

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

He replied, “The Man called Jesus made mud and smeared it on my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received my sight!”

They bring him unto the Pharisees - him at one time blind.

And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.

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

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

"Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?"

In answer his father and mother said, We are certain that this is our son and that he was blind at birth:

But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

It was because this that his parents said: "He is of age. Ask him, himself."

So they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him, Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner.

He answered and said: If he is a sinner, I know it not. One thing I do know, that having been blind, I now see.

Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?

He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples?

They railed at him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.

We know that God does not listen to sinners [i.e., when they pray]; but God does listen to the person who reveres Him and does what He wants.

Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.

If this man had not been from God, he could not have done anything at all."

They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

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

He answered, and said, "And who is it, Lord, that I might believe on him?"

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

And he said, “Lord, I believe [in You and Your word]!” And he worshiped Him [with reverence and awe].

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind."

"If you had been blind," replied Jesus, "you would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, you say 'We can see,' and so your sin remains.

"Truly, truly I say to you, the one who does not enter through the door into the fold of the sheep, but climbs up at some other place--that one is a thief and a robber.

But the One [i.e., Jesus is referring to Himself] who enters [it] through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep [Note: "Sheep" in this section refers to Jesus' followers].

To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

This parable spake Jesus unto them: but they understood not what things they were which he spake unto them.

I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture.

The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy: I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly.

But the hireling flees because he is a hireling, and it is no care to him about the sheep.

even as the Father knows Me and I know the Father—and I lay down My [very own] life [sacrificing it] for the benefit of 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.

Therefore doth my Father love me, because I lay down my life, that I might take it again.

No 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 have I received of my Father.

Once again there was a division among the Jews because of what Jesus had been saying.

And many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is out of his mind! Why do you listen to him?"

Others were saying, "These are not the words of one who is possessed by a demon! A demon is not able to open the eyes of the blind, [is it]?"

And it was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.

it was winter; and Jesus was walking in the temple in Solomon's porch.

Jesus answered them, “I have told you so, yet you do not believe. The works that I do in My Father’s name testify concerning Me [they are My credentials and the evidence declaring who I am].

but you do not believe it because you do not belong to my sheep.

And I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand.

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 took up stones again to send at him.

The Jews answered Him, “We are not going to stone You for a good work, but for blasphemy, because You, a mere man, make Yourself out to be God.”

Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods?

And if it stiled them gods, to whom the word of God came, (and the scripture cannot be made void,)

how is it that you say to one whom the Father consecrated and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am God's Son'?

But if I am doing them, even if you do not believe Me or have faith in Me, [at least] believe the works [that I do—admit that they are the works of God], so that you may know and keep on knowing [clearly—without any doubt] that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father [that is, I am One with Him].”

Therefore they sought again to take him: but he escaped out of their hand,

And went away again beyond Jordan into the place where John at first baptized; and there he abode.

Many came to Him and were saying, “While John performed no sign, yet everything John said about this man was true.”

And so many of them at that place believed in Him.

Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha??2 it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was ill.

(It was that Mary which anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

The sisters, therefore, sent out unto him, saying - Lord, see! he whom thou tenderly lovest, is sick.

But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.

When therefore he heard that he was sick, he abode at that time two days in the place where he was.

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

But if anyone walks at night he stumbles, because the light is not in him."

These things said he: and after that he saith unto them, Our friend Lazarus sleepeth; but I go, that I may awake him out of sleep.

Jesus, however, was talking of his death: but they had the idea that he was talking about taking rest in sleep.

And for your sake I am glad that I was not there, so that you may believe. But let us go to him.”

At this, Thomas, who was called 'The Twin,' said to his fellow-disciples: "Let us go too, so that we may die with him."

So, when Jesus arrived, He found out that Lazarus had already been in his grave [i.e., a cave-like tomb] for four days.

Now Bethany was near to Jerusalem, being but about fifteen furlongs from it:

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

When Martha had the news that Jesus was on the way, she went out to him, but Mary did not go from the house.

But I know, that even now, whatsoever thou wilt ask of God, God will give it thee.

Martha saith unto him, I know that he shall rise again in the resurrection at the last day.

Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection, and the life: he that believeth in me, though he were dead, yet shall he live:

and everyone who lives and believes in Me [as Savior] will never die. Do you believe this?”

She said to Him, “Yes, Lord; I have believed and continue to believe that You are the Christ (the Messiah, the Anointed), the Son of God, He who was [destined and promised] to come into the world [and it is for You that the world has waited].”

After she had said this, she left and called her sister Mary, privately whispering [to her], “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

And she, when she heard it, arose quickly, and went unto him.

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

The Jews then which were with her in the house, and comforted her, when they saw Mary, that she rose up hastily and went out, followed her, saying, She goeth unto the grave to weep there.

Then when Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell down at his feet, saying unto him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

When Jesus saw her weep and the Jews who had come with her weeping too, repressing a groan, and yet showing great agitation,

And some of them said, Was not this One, having opened the eyes of the blind, able to bring it to pass, that he indeed should not die?

Jesus therefore again groaning in himself cometh to the grave. It was a cave, and a stone lay upon it.

Jesus said, "Take away the stone." Martha, the sister of the one who had died, said to him, "Lord, he is stinking already, because it has been four days."

And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, 'Lazarus, come forth;'

Out came the man who had been dead, his hands and feet tightly wrapped in burial cloths (linen strips), and with a [burial] cloth wrapped around his face. Jesus said to them, “Unwrap him and release him.”

Many therefore of the Jews who came to Mary and saw what he had done, believed on him;

But some of them went their ways to the Pharisees, and told them what things Jesus had done.

Then gathered the chief priests and the Pharisees a council, and said, What do we? for this man doeth many miracles.