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

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

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.”

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”

Jesus answered, “Is it not written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?

Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”

(Now Jesus had been talking about his death, but they thought he had been talking about real sleep.)

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

She replied, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”

And when she had said this, Martha went and called her sister Mary, saying privately, “The Teacher is here and is asking for you.”

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

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?”

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.”

Then many of the people, who had come with Mary and had seen the things Jesus did, believed in him.

(Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had given orders that anyone who knew where Jesus was should report it, so that they could arrest him.)

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

Thus the Pharisees said to one another, “You see that you can do nothing. Look, the world has run off after him!”

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