Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

You people are doing the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

The Judeans replied, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”

You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

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

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

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.

They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

So his parents replied, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

Jesus replied, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.”

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

Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was saying to them.

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

After he said this, he added, “Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep. But I am going there to awaken him.”

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

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?”