You yourselves can testify that I said, ‘I am not the Christ,’ but rather, ‘I have been sent before him.’

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

I sent you to reap what you did not work for; others have labored and you have entered into their labor.”

When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him, “Do you want to become well?”

And the Father who sent me has himself testified about me. You people have never heard his voice nor seen his form at any time,

nor do you have his word residing in you, because you do not believe the one whom he sent.

Then Jesus, because he knew they were going to come and seize him by force to make him king, withdrew again up the mountainside alone.

So Jesus added, “Because of this I told you that no one can come to me unless the Father has allowed him to come.”

For no one who seeks to make a reputation for himself does anything in secret. If you are doing these things, show yourself to the world.”

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.”

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

The Judeans replied, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”

They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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.”

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

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

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

For I have not spoken from my own authority, but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me what I should say and what I should speak.