Now because Jesus was doing these things on the Sabbath, the Jewish leaders began persecuting him.

Now when evening came, his disciples went down to the lake,

Your ancestors ate the manna in the wilderness, and they died.

Then the Jewish leaders were astonished and said, “How does this man know so much when he has never had formal instruction?”

Then the Pharisees answered, “You haven’t been deceived too, have you?

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

For this reason his parents said, “He is a mature adult, ask him.”)

The Jewish leaders picked up rocks again to stone him to death.

Then the disciples replied, “Lord, if he has fallen asleep, he will recover.”

Thus the people who had come to mourn said, “Look how much he loved him!”

So the chief priests planned to kill Lazarus too,

The disciples began to look at one another, worried and perplexed to know which of them he was talking about.

Then Jesus asked them again, “Who are you looking for?” And they said, “Jesus the Nazarene.”

When the head steward tasted the water that had been turned to wine, not knowing where it came from (though the servants who had drawn the water knew), he called the bridegroom

I tell you the solemn truth, a time is coming – and is now here – when the dead will hear the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear will live.

But there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus had already known from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and who it was who would betray him.)

So Jesus’ brothers advised him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples may see your miracles that you are performing.

Then the Judeans responded, “Now we know you’re possessed by a demon! Both Abraham and the prophets died, and yet you say, ‘If anyone obeys my teaching, he will never experience death.’

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Jesus said,] “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”