Then Jesus took the loaves, and when he had given thanks, he distributed the bread to those who were seated. He then did the same with the fish, as much as they wanted.

Then, when they had rowed about three or four miles, they caught sight of Jesus walking on the lake, approaching the boat, and they were frightened.

It is written in the prophets, ‘And they will all be taught by God.’ Everyone who hears and learns from the Father comes to me.

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

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 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.

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.

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

Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes

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?”

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

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?”

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

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

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!”

When Jesus saw her weeping, and the people who had come with her weeping, he was intensely moved in spirit and greatly distressed.

So the chief priests and the Pharisees called the council together and said, “What are we doing? For this man is performing many miraculous signs.