So again they asked the man who used to be blind,<n id="1" /> &#8220;What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?&#8221;<n id="2" /> &#8220;He is a prophet,&#8221; the man replied.<n id="3" />p>

He answered,<n id="1" /> &#8220;I told you already and you didn&#8217;t listen.<n id="2" /> Why do you want to hear it<n id="3" /> again? You people<n id="4" /> don&#8217;t want to become his disciples too, do you?&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man<n id="1" /> and said to him, &#8220;Do you believe in the Son of Man?&#8221;<n id="2" />

<p class="bodytext">Some of the Pharisees<n id="1" /> who were with him heard this<n id="2" /> and asked him,<n id="3" /> &#8220;We are not blind too, are we?&#8221;<n id="4" />

Jesus replied,<n id="1" /> &#8220;If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin,<n id="2" /> but now because you claim that you can see,<n id="3" /> your guilt<n id="4" /> remains.&#8221;<n id="5" />p>

Jesus told them this parable,<n id="1" /> but they<n id="2" /> did not understand<n id="3" /> what he was saying to them.p>

<p class="bodytext">Jesus answered,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Is it not written in your law, &#8216;<b><i>I said, you are godsi>b>&#8217;?<n id="2" />

If those people to whom the word of God came were called &#8216;gods&#8217; (and the scripture cannot be broken),<n id="1" />

do you say about the one whom the Father set apart<n id="1" /> and sent into the world, &#8216;You are blaspheming,&#8217; because I said, &#8216;I am the Son of God&#8217;?

Many<n id="1" /> came to him and began to say, &#8220;John<n id="2" /> performed<n id="3" /> no miraculous sign, but everything John said about this man<n id="4" /> was true!&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">After he said this, he added,<n id="1" /> &#8220;Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep.<n id="2" /> But I am going there to awaken him.&#8221;

Jesus said to her, &#8220;I am the resurrection and the life. The one who believes in me will live<n id="1" /> even if he dies,

So they took away<n id="1" /> the stone. Jesus looked upward<n id="2" /> and said, &#8220;Father, I thank you that you have listened to me.<n id="3" />

I knew that you always listen to me,<n id="1" /> but I said this<n id="2" /> for the sake of the crowd standing around here, that they may believe that you sent me.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Then one of them, Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, said,<n id="1" /> &#8220;You know nothing at all!

(Now he did not say this on his own,<n id="1" /> but because he was high priest that year, he prophesied that Jesus was going to die for the Jewish nation,<n id="2" />

(Now Judas<n id="1" /> said this not because he was concerned about the poor, but because he was a thief. As keeper of the money box,<n id="2" /> he used to steal what was put into it.)<n id="3" />

so that the word<n id="1" /> of Isaiah the prophet would be fulfilled. He said,<n id="2" /> &#8220;<b><i>Lord, who has believed our message, and to whom has the arm of the Lordi>b><n id="3" /> <b><i>been revealed?i>b>&#8221;<n id="4" />

<t /><p class="bodytext">But Jesus shouted out,<n id="1" /> &#8220;The one who believes in me does not believe in me, but in the one who sent me,<n id="2" />

For I have not spoken from my own authority,<n id="1" /> but the Father himself who sent me has commanded me<n id="2" /> what I should say and what I should speak.