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?”

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

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

“Our law doesn’t condemn a man unless it first hears from him and learns what he is doing, does it?”

They replied, “You aren’t from Galilee too, are you? Investigate carefully and you will see that no prophet comes from Galilee!”

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

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.

And the one who sent me is with me. He has not left me alone, because I always do those things that please him.”

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

I am telling you the things I have seen while with the Father; as for you, practice the things you have heard from the Father!”

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”

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.

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 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?”