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things to say about you and to judge. But he who sent me is true and I am telling the world what I have heard from him."

They did not understand that he was speaking to them about the Father.

"When you have lifted up the Son of man," Jesus therefore said to them, "then you will know I am he and that I am doing nothing on my own authority, but as my Father has taught me I am saying this. He who sent me is with me. The Father has not left me alone, for I always do what pleases him.".

As he was saying this many believed in him.

"If you continue to do what I tell you," said Jesus to those Jews who believed in him, "then you are my disciples indeed, and you will get to know the truth and the truth will make you free."

"We are Abraham's descendents and were never in bondage to any one. How do you say:

You will be made free?"

"Most truly I tell you, Whoever keeps committing sin is the slave of sin. The slave does not remain in the house forever, but the son always remains. So if the Son shall make you free, you will be free indeed. I know you are Abraham's descendants. But you are trying to kill me because what I tell you has no place in you.

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talking about what I have seen with my Father, and you keep doing what you have seen with your father."

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"If God were your father you would love me. For I came out of God and am here. Nor have I come on my own authority. He sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? Because you cannot bear to listen to me. You are of your father the devil, and you are determined to do what your father desires. He was a murderer from the beginning. He did not continue in the

truth because there is no truth in him. When he tells a lie he is talking about his own. For he is a liar and the liar's father. But because I tell you the truth you do not believe me. Which of you convicts me of sin? And if I say the truth why do you not believe me? He who is from God hears God's words. you are not from God."

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"Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan and possessed by a demon?"

"I am not possessed by a demon.

I am honoring my Father and you are dishonoring me. I am not seeking my own honor. There is one who is seeking and judging. Most truly I tell you, Whoever keeps my saying shall never see death for

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"Now we know you are possessed by a demon. Abraham is dead and the Prophets. And you say, If any one keeps my saying he shall never see death forever. Surely you are not greater than our father Abraham who died? And the Prophets died. Whom are you making yourself?"

"If I am honoring myself my honor is nothing. It is my Father who is honoring me, he of whom you are saying, he is your God. Yet you never became acquainted with him. But I know him. And if I should say I do not know him I shall be a liar like you. But I know him and keep his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day, and he saw it and was glad.”

"You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham ?”

"Most truly I tell you, Before Abraham was I am."

They took up stones to throw at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the Temple.

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As Jesus was passing by he saw a man blind from his birth.

"Rabbi," his disciples asked, "who was the sinner, this man or his parents so that he was born blind?"

"Neither did this man sin, nor his parents. On the contrary, this has happened so that what God is doing might be made known in him. We must do while it is day what he who sent me is doing. The night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world." When he had spoken in this way he spat on the ground, made clay of the spittle, anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said:

"Go wash in the pool of Siloam," which means, Sent.

So he went away, washed, and came seeing.

"Is not this he who used to sit and beg?" said the neighbors and those who before had seen he was blind.

"This is he," said some.

"No, but he is like him," said others.

"I am he," the man himself said.

"How were your eyes opened ?" they therefore asked him.

"A man called Jesus made clay, anointed my eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloam and wash. So I went, washed, and received sight."

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"Where is he?"

"I do not know."

They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees. It was the Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. So they also again asked him how he had received his sight. "He put clay on my eyes and I washed and now see.'

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"This man is not from God," said some of the Pharisees," because he does not keep the Sabbath.' "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" said others.

There was a division among them.

"What do you say about him in view of the fact that he opened your eyes?" they again said to the blind man.

"He is a Prophet."

But the Jews did not believe he had been blind and received his sight till they called his parents.

"Is this your son who you say was born blind?" they asked. "How then does he now see?"

"We know this is our son and that he was born blind. But by what means he now sees we do not know, or who has opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age. Ask him. He shall speak for himself."

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For they had already agreed that if any

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