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

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

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

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate, because I am not alone when I judge, but I and the Father who sent me do so together.

So the Jewish leaders began to say, “Perhaps he is going to kill himself, because he says, ‘Where I am going you cannot come.’”

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

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

But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!

You people are doing the deeds of your father.” Then they said to Jesus, “We were not born as a result of immorality! We have only one Father, God himself.”

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

I tell you the solemn truth, if anyone obeys my teaching, he will never see death.”

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

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 replied, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing – that although I was blind, now I can 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?”

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.”

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

The thief comes only to steal and kill and destroy; I have come so that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

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.”