They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

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

We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

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.

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

I am the door. If anyone enters through me, he will be saved, and will come in and go out, and find pasture.

“I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep.

My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one can snatch them from my Father’s hand.

The Jewish leaders replied, “We are not going to stone you for a good deed but for blasphemy, because you, a man, are claiming to be God.”

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’?

Jesus went back across the Jordan River again to the place where John had been baptizing at an earlier time, and he stayed there.

Many came to him and began to say, “John performed no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man was true!”

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

Jesus said to her, “I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live even if he dies,

She replied, “Yes, Lord, I believe that you are the Christ, the Son of God who comes into the world.”

(Now Jesus had not yet entered the village, but was still in the place where Martha had come out to meet him.)

Jesus, intensely moved again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)

Jesus said, “Take away the stone.” Martha, the sister of the deceased, replied, “Lord, by this time the body will have a bad smell, because he has been buried four days.”

Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said, “You know nothing at all!