However, no one spoke openly about him for fear of the Jewish leaders.

He continued, “I tell all of you the solemn truth – you will see heaven opened and the angels of God ascending and descending on the Son of Man.”

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

But when his brothers had gone up to the feast, then Jesus himself also went up, not openly but in secret.

So they asked him, “How then were you made to see?”

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.)

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

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

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 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?”

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 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.”

Jesus replied, “I have spoken publicly to the world. I always taught in the synagogues and in the temple courts, where all the Jewish people assemble together. I have said nothing in secret.

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

Thus Jesus no longer went around publicly among the Judeans, but went away from there to the region near the wilderness, to a town called Ephraim, and stayed there with his disciples.

He confessed – he did not deny but confessed – “I am not the Christ!”

Then came the feast of the Dedication in Jerusalem.

Jesus did this as the first of his miraculous signs, in Cana of Galilee. In this way he revealed his glory, and his disciples believed in him.