Yet many of the crowd<n id="1" /> believed in him and said, &#8220;Whenever the Christ<n id="2" /> comes, he won&#8217;t perform more miraculous signs than this man did, will he?&#8221;<n id="3" />p>

(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,<n id="1" /> because Jesus was not yet glorified.)<n id="2" />p>

Others said, &#8220;This is the Christ!&#8221;<n id="1" /> But still others said, &#8220;No,<n id="2" /> for the Christ doesn&#8217;t come from Galilee, does he?<n id="3" />

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<n id="1" /> them.

When they persisted in asking him, he stood up straight<n id="1" /> and replied,<n id="2" /> &#8220;Whoever among you is guiltless<n id="3" /> may be the first to throw a stone at her.&#8221;

<p class="bodytext">Now when they heard this, they began to drift away one at a time, starting with the older ones,<n id="1" /> until Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him.

But if I judge, my evaluation is accurate,<n id="1" /> because I am not alone when I judge,<n id="2" /> but I and the Father who sent me do so together.<n id="3" />

But now you are trying<n id="1" /> to kill me, a man who has told you<n id="2" /> the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do this!<n id="3" />

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>

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>

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;

(Now it was Mary who anointed the Lord with perfumed oil<n id="1" /> and wiped his feet dry with her hair, whose brother Lazarus was sick.)<n id="2" />

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

But some of them said, &#8220;This is the man who caused the blind man to see!<n id="1" /> Couldn&#8217;t he have done something to keep Lazarus<n id="2" /> from dying?&#8221;p>

<t /><p class="bodytext">Jesus, intensely moved<n id="1" /> again, came to the tomb. (Now it was a cave, and a stone was placed across it.)<n id="2" />

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" />