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!

(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,

(Now Judas said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box, he used to steal what was put into it.)

so that the word of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said, “Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”

But Jesus shouted out, “The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,

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.