(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.”

Now a large crowd of Judeans learned that Jesus was there, and so they came not only because of him but also to see Lazarus whom he had raised from the dead.

I no longer call you slaves, because the slave does not understand what his master is doing. But I have called you friends, because I have revealed to you everything I heard from my Father.

If I had not performed among them the miraculous deeds that no one else did, they would not be guilty of sin. But now they have seen the deeds and have hated both me and my Father.

From this point on, Pilate tried to release him. But the Jewish leaders shouted out, “If you release this man, you are no friend of Caesar! Everyone who claims to be a king opposes Caesar!”

Then the chief priests of the Jews said to Pilate, “Do not write, ‘The king of the Jews,’ but rather, ‘This man said, I am king of the Jews.’”

Now the Word became flesh and took up residence among us. We saw his glory – the glory of the one and only, full of grace and truth, who came from the Father.

Andrew, the brother of Simon Peter, was one of the two disciples who heard what John said and followed Jesus.

For everyone who does evil deeds hates the light and does not come to the light, so that their deeds will not be exposed.

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

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?”

There is another who testifies about me, and I know the testimony he testifies about me is true.

No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him, and I will raise him up at the last day.

The one who eats my flesh and drinks my blood has eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.

Then many of his disciples, when they heard these things, said, “This is a difficult saying! Who can understand it?”

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.”

But if a male child is circumcised on the Sabbath so that the law of Moses is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

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?”

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.”