Yet here he is, speaking publicly, and they are saying nothing to him. Do the rulers really know that this man is the Christ?

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?”

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

(Now they were asking this in an attempt to trap him, so that they could bring charges against him.) Jesus bent down and wrote on the ground with his finger.

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

Then Jesus said to those Judeans who had believed him, “If you continue to follow my teaching, you are really my disciples

“We are descendants of Abraham,” they replied, “and have never been anyone’s slaves! How can you say, ‘You will become free’?”

Jesus answered them, “I tell you the solemn truth, everyone who practices sin is a slave of sin.

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.”

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

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

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

They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.

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 tell you the solemn truth, the one who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs in some other way, is a thief and a robber.

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.”

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