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

(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

Then they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?”

When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?

But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

Others said, “These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?”

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

But the Advocate, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, will teach you everything, and will cause you to remember everything I said to you.

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself.”

Now this happened to fulfill the word that is written in their law, ‘They hated me without reason.’

Then Pilate said, “So you are a king!” Jesus replied, “You say that I am a king. For this reason I was born, and for this reason I came into the world – to testify to the truth. Everyone who belongs to the truth listens to my voice.”

Because they had heard that Jesus had performed this miraculous sign, the crowd went out to meet him.

Philip said, “Lord, show us the Father, and we will be content.”

“I have told you all these things so that you will not fall away.

“Now my soul is greatly distressed. And what should I say? ‘Father, deliver me from this hour’? No, but for this very reason I have come to this hour.

Again Pilate went out and said to the Jewish leaders, “Look, I am bringing him out to you, so that you may know that I find no reason for an accusation against him.”

For this reason the Jewish leaders were trying even harder to kill him, because not only was he breaking the Sabbath, but he was also calling God his own Father, thus making himself equal with God.

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?