Then the Pharisees again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded, “What’s your opinion about this man who healed you?” 

         The man replied, “I think he must be a prophet.”

Some of the Pharisees said, “This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath.” Others said, “But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?” 

           So there was a deep division of opinion among them.

“Where is he now?” they asked.

         “I don’t know,” he replied.

                    Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees, because it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the mud and healed him.   The Pharisees asked the man all about it.  So he told them, “He put the mud over my eyes, and when I washed it away, I could see!”

His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” 

         Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!”

                 But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”

                           They asked, “Who healed you? What happened?”

                                       He told them, “The man they call Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.’ So I went and washed, and now I can see!”

Then he (Jesus) spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes.  

           He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!

As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.   “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind?   Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”

              “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.   

                      We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.   The night is coming, and then no one can work.   But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world.”

 The people said, “You aren’t even fifty years old. How can you say you have seen Abraham?”

               Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I Am!” 

                      At that point they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus was hidden from them and left the Temple.

Jesus answered, “If I want glory for myself, it doesn’t count. But it is my Father who will glorify me.  You say, ‘He is our God,  but you don’t even know him.  I know him.  If I said otherwise, I would be as great a liar as you!  But I do know him and obey him.  Your father Abraham rejoiced as he looked forward to my coming.  He saw it and was glad.”

Romans 15:3

The people said, “Now we know you are possessed by a demon. Even Abraham and the prophets died, but you say,  ‘Anyone who obeys my teaching will never die!’  Are you greater than our father Abraham?  He died, and so did the prophets.  Who do you think you are?”

 “No,” Jesus said, “I have no demon in me. For I honor my Father and you dishonor me.   And though I have no wish to glorify myself, God is going to glorify me.  He is the true judge.   I tell you the truth, anyone who obeys my teaching will never die!”

Which of you can truthfully accuse me of sin? And since I am telling you the truth, why don’t you believe me? 

           Anyone who belongs to God listens gladly to the words of God. But you don’t listen because you don’t belong to God.”

                       The people retorted, “You Samaritan devil! Didn’t we say all along that you were possessed by a demon?”