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

So he told them, “My Father is working until now, and I too am working.”

A large crowd was following him because they were observing the miraculous signs he was performing on the sick.

When they were all satisfied, Jesus said to his disciples, “Gather up the broken pieces that are left over, so that nothing is wasted.”

So they said to him, “Then what miraculous sign will you perform, so that we may see it and believe you? What will you do?

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood resides in me, and I in him.

Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words of eternal life.

(Now he said this about Judas son of Simon Iscariot, for Judas, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.)

So the Jewish leaders were looking for him at the feast, asking, “Where is he?”

The experts in the law and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught committing adultery. They made her stand in front of them

Jesus stood up straight and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Did no one condemn you?”

So the Pharisees objected, “You testify about yourself; your testimony is not true!”

Then the Judeans replied, “You are not yet fifty years old! Have you seen Abraham?”

Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out from the temple area.

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

They heaped insults on him, saying, “You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!

They will never follow a stranger, but will run away from him, because they do not recognize the stranger’s voice.”

All who came before me were thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

This is why the Father loves me – because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again.

My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me.