(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)

Then Mary took three quarters of a pound of expensive aromatic oil from pure nard and anointed the feet of Jesus. She then wiped his feet dry with her hair. (Now the house was filled with the fragrance of the perfumed oil.)

Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes

He first found his own brother Simon and told him, “We have found the Messiah!” (which is translated Christ).

He replied, “The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.”

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

We have come to believe and to know that you are the Holy One of God!”

Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?

Now this is eternal life – that they know you, the only true God, and Jesus Christ, whom you sent.

You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

The woman said to him, “I know that Messiah is coming” (the one called Christ); “whenever he comes, he will tell us everything.”

She replied, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”

I am telling you this now, before it happens, so that when it happens you may believe that I am he.

But these are recorded so that you may believe that Jesus is the Christ, the Son of God, and that by believing you may have life in his name.