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

When Jesus was aware that his disciples were complaining about this, he said to them, “Does this cause you to be offended?

The world cannot hate you, but it hates me, because I am testifying about it that its deeds are evil.

The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring these things about Jesus, so the chief priests and the Pharisees sent officers to arrest him.

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

Early in the morning he came to the temple courts again. All the people came to him, and he sat down and began to teach them.

(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.

(Jesus spoke these words near the offering box while he was teaching in the temple courts. No one seized him because his time had not yet come.)

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

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

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 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?”

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

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?”

The doorkeeper opens the door for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

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

I give them eternal life, and they will never perish; no one will snatch them from my hand.

Jesus said to them, “I have shown you many good deeds from the Father. For which one of them are you going to stone me?”

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)