When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?”
Jesus answered them, “Did I not choose you, the twelve? And yet one of you is a devil.”
And there was much muttering about him among the people. While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, he is leading the people astray.”
The crowd answered, “You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?”
Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath.
If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well?
So they were seeking to arrest him, but no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.
Jesus then said, “I will be with you a little longer, and then I am going to him who sent me.
So there was a division among the people over him.
“Does our law judge a man without first giving him a hearing and learning what he does?”
The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst
And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, “Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her.”
Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, everyone who practices sin is a slave to sin.
but now you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did.
You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.
The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and have a demon?”
Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never taste death.’
But you have not known him. I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you, but I do know him and I keep his word.
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”
Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.
So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.
“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber.
A stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.”
He who is a hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and leaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and scatters them.
He flees because he is a hired hand and cares nothing for the sheep.
There was again a division among the Jews because of these words.
Many of them said, “He has a demon, and is insane; why listen to him?”
Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
Now a certain man was ill, Lazarus of Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha.
Then Jesus, deeply moved again, came to the tomb. It was a cave, and a stone lay against it.
When he had said these things, he cried out with a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out.”
The man who had died came out, his hands and feet bound with linen strips, and his face wrapped with a cloth. Jesus said to them, “Unbind him, and let him go.”
Jesus therefore no longer walked openly among the Jews, but went from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and there he stayed with the disciples.
So they gave a dinner for him there. Martha served, and Lazarus was one of those reclining with him at table.
Mary therefore took a pound of expensive ointment made from pure nard, and anointed the feet of Jesus and wiped his feet with her hair. The house was filled with the fragrance of the perfume.
He said this, not because he cared about the poor, but because he was a thief, and having charge of the moneybag he used to help himself to what was put into it.
And Jesus found a young donkey and sat on it, just as it is written,
“Fear not, daughter of Zion; behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's colt!”
Truly, truly, I say to you, unless a grain of wheat falls into the earth and dies, it remains alone; but if it dies, it bears much fruit.
Father, glorify your name.” Then a voice came from heaven: “I have glorified it, and I will glorify it again.”
So Jesus said to them, “The light is among you for a little while longer. Walk while you have the light, lest darkness overtake you. The one who walks in the darkness does not know where he is going.
The one who rejects me and does not receive my words has a judge; the word that I have spoken will judge him on the last day.
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