Then the officers returned to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why didn’t you bring him back with you?”

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight and replied, “Whoever among you is guiltless may be the first to throw a stone at her.”

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

So they said to him, “Who are you?” Jesus replied, “What I have told you from the beginning.

Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes

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.

He answered, “I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

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.”

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

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

If those people to whom the word of God came were called ‘gods’ (and the scripture cannot be broken),

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’?

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

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

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

So they took away the stone. Jesus looked upward and said, “Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.

I knew that you always listen to me, but I said this for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.”

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, “You know nothing at all!