The officers replied, “No one ever spoke like this man!”

A man came, sent from God, whose name was John.

Now a certain man, a Pharisee named Nicodemus, who was a member of the Jewish ruling council,

Now a man was there who had been disabled for thirty-eight years.

They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”

The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

and said to him, “Everyone serves the good wine first, and then the cheaper wine when the guests are drunk. You have kept the good wine until now!”

John replied, “No one can receive anything unless it has been given to him from heaven.

Immediately the man was healed, and he picked up his mat and started walking. (Now that day was a Sabbath.)

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?

The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.

You do not realize that it is more to your advantage to have one man die for the people than for the whole nation to perish.”

So Jesus came outside, wearing the crown of thorns and the purple robe. Pilate said to them, “Look, here is the man!”

Then some of the Pharisees began to say, “This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.

Nicodemus said to him, “How can a man be born when he is old? He cannot enter his mother’s womb and be born a second time, can he?”

Jesus told him, “Go home; your son will live.” The man believed the word that Jesus spoke to him, and set off for home.

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.”

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.”

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