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one should acknowledge him as the Christ he should be excommunicated. Ask him."

"He is of age.

So his parents said :

Then they again called the man who had been

blind.

"Give God the praise," they said.

this man is a sinner."

"We know

"Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know. One thing I do know, that I was blind and now I see."

"What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?'

"I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Surely you also do not want to be his disciples ? "

"You are his disciple," they revilingly retorted. "But we are Moses' disciples. We know God spoke to Moses. But as for this fellow, we do not know where he comes from."

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Why, it is a strange thing that you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes. Now we know God does not listen to sinners. But if any one is a worshipper of God and does his will, he listens to him. Since the world began it has not been heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind. If this man had not been from God he could do nothing."

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"You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?"

They excommunicated him.

Jesus heard they had excommunicated him. So when he had found him, he said :

"Do you believe in the Son of God?"

"Who is he, Lord, so that I may believe in him?” "You have both seen him and he it is who is talking with you."

"Lord, I believe."

"For judgment did I come into this world,” Jesus said, "so that they who do not see might see, and so that they who see, might be made blind." Some of the Pharisees who were with Jesus heard this.

"Are we blind also?" they said.

"If you were blind you would have no sin. But now you say: We see. So your sin continues.”

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"Most truly I tell you, He who does not go in by the door into the sheepfold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber. But he who goes in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. For him the porter opens, and the sheep listen to his voice. And he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. And when he has let out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow

him. For they know his voice.

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But they will not
For they

follow a stranger but will flee from him.

do not know the stranger's voice."

and robbers.

Jesus gave them this illustration, but they did not understand what he said. So he said to them again : "Most truly I tell you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before me are thieves But the sheep did not listen to them. I am the door. If any one goes in by me he shall be saved, and shall go in and out and find pasture. The thief only comes to steal and to kill and to destroy. I came so that they may have life and may have an abundance of it. I am the Good Shepherd. The Good Shepherd gives his life for the sheep. But he who is a hireling and not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. So the wolf catches them and scatters the sheep. The hireling flees because he is a hireling and does not care for the sheep. I am the Good Shepherd. `I become acquainted with my sheep and my sheep become acquainted with me just as the Father becomes acquainted with me and I become acquainted with the Father, and I am laying down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep which are not of this fold. Them also must I bring and they shall hear my voice. So they shall become one flock under one shepherd. It is for this reason my

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Father loves me, because I am laying down my life so that I may take it again. No one is taking it from me. I am laying it down of myself. I have authority to lay it down and I have authority to take it again. I have received this commandment from my Father.”

There was a division again among the Jews because of these words.

"He is possessed by a demon and is mad," said many of them. "Why do you listen to him? "These are not the words of one possessed," said others. "Can a demon open the eyes of the

blind?"

It was the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem. It was winter. Jesus was walking in Solomon's Porch in the Temple. The Jews came round him : "How long do you make us doubt?" they said.

"If you are the Christ tell us plainly." "I told you and you do not believe. What I am doing in my Father's name bears witness about me. But you do not believe me because you are not of my sheep as I told you. My sheep are listening to my voice, and I am getting to know them and they are following me. I am giving them eternal life and they shall never perish. any one snatch them out of my hand. who gave them to me is greater than all.

Nor shall My Father

And no

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one is able to snatch them out of my Father's hand. I and my Father are one."

The Jews took up stones again to stone him.

"Many noble deeds have I shown you from the Father. For which of those deeds are you beginning to stone me?"

"We are not stoning you for a noble deed, but for blasphemy. And because you, a man, are making yourself God."

"Is it not written in your law I said:

You are Gods?

If he called them Gods to whom God's message came, and the Scripture cannot be broken, do you say about him whom the Father has made pure and sent into the world: You are blaspheming because I said, I am the Son of God? If I do not do the deeds of my Father, do not believe me. But if I do, though you do not believe me, believe the deeds so that you may learn and keep learning that the Father is in me and I in him."

They tried again to take him, but he escaped out of their hands and went away again beyond Jordan to the place where John at first was purifying. He staid there.

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John did not do any sign," those who went to him used to say. "But everything John said

about this man was true."

Many believed in him there.