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

Jesus replied, “Didn’t I choose you, the twelve, and yet one of you is the devil?”

So Jesus replied, “My teaching is not from me, but from the one who sent me.

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

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

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

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

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!

You people are doing the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

He replied, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing – that although I was blind, now I can see.”

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?”

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.”

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

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

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

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?”

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

(Now he did not say this on his own, but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,