Then the Jewish leaders said to him, “This temple has been under construction for forty-six years, and are you going to raise it up in three days?”

“Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did. Surely he can’t be the Messiah, can he?”

Now when the people saw the miraculous sign that Jesus performed, they began to say to one another, “This is certainly the Prophet who is to come into the world.”

(Not that anyone has seen the Father except the one who is from God – he has seen the Father.)

This is the bread that has come down from heaven, so that a person may eat from it and not die.

Then the Jews who were hostile to Jesus began to argue with one another, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

You go up to the feast yourselves. I am not going up to this feast because my time has not yet fully arrived.”

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

Yet many of the crowd believed in him and said, “Whenever the Christ comes, he won’t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?”

Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?

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

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

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?”

Some people said, “This is the man!” while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting, “I am the one!”

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.

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

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.

So these approached Philip, who was from Bethsaida in Galilee, and requested, “Sir, we would like to see Jesus.”