If anyone wants to do God’s will, he will know about my teaching, whether it is from God or whether I speak from my own authority.

However, because Moses gave you the practice of circumcision (not that it came from Moses, but from the forefathers), you circumcise a male child on the Sabbath.

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

(Now he said this about the Spirit, whom those who believed in him were going to receive, for the Spirit had not yet been given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.)

Others said, “This is the Christ!” But still others said, “No, for the Christ doesn’t come from Galilee, does he?

Don’t the scriptures say that the Christ is a descendant of David and comes from Bethlehem, the village where David lived?”

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

Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones, until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

Thus I told you that you will die in your sins. For unless you believe that I am he, you will die in your sins.”

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

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

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.

I know that you are Abraham’s descendants. But you want to kill me, because my teaching makes no progress among you.

The Judeans replied, “Aren’t we correct in saying that you are a Samaritan and are possessed by a demon?”

You aren’t greater than our father Abraham who died, are you? And the prophets died too! Who do you claim to be?”

We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

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.

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.