And now the festival had gone halfway, and Jesus went up to the temple and taught. And the Jews were astonished and said: How does this man have learning when he was never a student? Jesus answered them and said: My teaching is not my own but his who sent me; if anyone wishes to do his will, he will know about the teaching, whether it comes from God or whether I speak on my own account. He who speaks on his own account is looking for his own glory; but he who looks for the glory of him who sent him is the true man, and there is no wrong in him. Did not Moses give you the law? And not one of you obeys the law. Why are you trying to kill me? The crowd answered: You are possessed. Who is trying to kill you? Jesus answered and said to them: I did one thing and you all are astonished. This was why Moses gave you circumcision—not that it comes from Moses but from the fathers—and you circumcise a man on the sabbath. If a man receives circumcision on the sabbath so that the law of Moses may not be broken, are you angry with me because I made a whole man healthy on the sabbath? Do not judge by appearance, but make the judgment that is just. Then some of the people of Jerusalem said: Is not this the man they are trying to kill? And see, he speaks in public and they say nothing to him. Might it be that the authorities have seen that this is the Christ? But we know where this man comes from. But when the Christ comes, no one will know where he comes from. Jesus cried aloud as he taught in the temple: You know me and you know where I come from. But I came not on my own account, but he is the true one who sent me, and you do not know him. I know him, because I am from him and it was he who sent me. Then they sought to seize him, but no one laid a hand on him because his time had not yet come. Many in the crowd believed in him, and they said: When the Christ comes, can he perform more miracles than this one has done?
The Pharisees heard the crowd murmuring thus about him, and the high priests and the Pharisees sent officers to seize him. Then Jesus said: For a little more time I am with you and then I go to him who sent me. You will look for me and you will not find me, and where I am you cannot go. Then the Jews said among themselves: Where does this man mean to go where we shall not find him? He cannot be going to go where we are settled among the Greeks, and teach the Greeks? What is this that he said: You will look for me and you will not find me, and where I am you cannot go?
On the last great day of the festival Jesus stood forth and made a declaration, saying: If anyone is thirsty, let him come to me and drink. For one who believes in me, as the scripture says, streams of living water shall flow from deep within him. This he said concerning the spirit, of which those who had put their faith in him would partake; but the spirit was not yet because Jesus was not yet glorified. And some in the crowd who listened to these words said: This is in truth the prophet. And others said: This is the Christ. But others said: Surely the Christ cannot come out of Galilee? Did not the scripture say that the Christ would be of the seed of David, and from Bethlehem, David's village? So there was division in the multitude over him. And some of them wished to seize him, but no one laid hands on him.
Then the officers came back to the high priests and the Pharisees, who said to them: Why did you not bring him? The officers answered: Never has a man spoken like that. The Pharisees answered: Surely you have not been led astray? Do you think that one of the council or of the Pharisees believes in him? Only this rabble which does not know the law and is accursed. Nicodemus, who had gone to Jesus before, who was one of them, said to them: Surely our law does not judge a man without first giving him a hearing and being told what he does. They answered and said to him: Could it be that you are from Galilee too? Study the matter, and know that no prophet originates in Galilee. [And they went away each to his own house.
41 But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives; but at dawn he came back to the temple, and all the people came to him, and he sat and taught them. And the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and they set her in their midst. And they said to him: Master, this woman was caught in the act of adultery. In the law Moses charged us to stone such women to death. But what do you say? This they said to entrap him, so that they could bring a charge against him. Jesus stooped down and wrote with his finger in the dust. But when they continued to question him he stood up and said: Let the one of you who is without sin be the first to throw a stone at her. And again he stooped and wrote in the dust. And when they heard they went out, one by one, the eldest first, and he was left alone, and the woman who had been in their midst. And Jesus stood up and said to her: Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you? She said: No one, Lord. And Jesus said: Nor do I condemn you. Go, and from now on sin no more.]
Then Jesus talked with them again and said: I am the light of the world; he who follows me will not walk about in darkness but will have the light of life. Then the Pharisees said to him: You are testifying about yourself; your testimony is not true. Jesus answered and said to them: Even if I am testifying about myself, my testimony is true, because I know where I c^e from and where I am going. But you do not know where I come from or where I am going. You judge according to the flesh but I judge no one. And if I do judge, my judgment is true, because I am not alone but am I and the one who sent me. And in your law it is written that the testimony of two persons is true. I am he who testifies about myself, and my father who sent me testifies about me. Then they said to him: Where is your father? Jesus answered: You know neither me nor my father. If you knew me, you would also know my father. These words he spoke in the treasury as he taught in the temple. And no one seized him, because his time had not yet come.
Then again he said to them: I am going, and you will look for me, and in your sin you will die. Where I am going you cannot go. Then the Jews said: Will he kill himself when he says: Where I ^ going you cannot go? And he said to them: You come from things below, I come from things above. You are of this world, I am not of this world. I told you that you will die in your sins; for if you do not believe that I am, you will die in your sins. Then they said to him: Who are you? Jesus said to them: What I have been telling you from the beginning. I have much to say about you and much to judge. But he who sent me is true, and what I heard from him is what I speak to the world. They did not realize it was his father he told them about. Then Jesus said: When you raise the son of man aloft, then you will know that I am, and that of myself I do nothing, but what I say is according to what my father taught me. And he who sent me is with me. He did not leave me alone, because what I do is his pleasure, always. When he said this, many believed in him.
Then Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him: If you remain with my teaching, then you are truly my disciples and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free. They answered him: We are the seed of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone; how is it that you say: You will be made free? Jesus answered them: Truly truly I tell you that everyone who commits sin is the slave of his sin. But the slave does not remain in the house forever. The son remains forever. If then the son sets you free, you will be free in truth. I know that you are the seed of Abraham. But you are trying to kill me, because my teaching does not work in you. What I have seen with my father, I tell you; do then what you have heard from the father. They answered and said to him: Our father is Abraham. Jesus said to them: If you are the children of Abraham, then do what Abrah^ did. But now you are trying to kill me, a man who has told you the truth I heard from God. Abraham did not do that. You are doing what your father did. They said to him: We were not bred from promiscuity. We have one father, God. Jesus said to them: If God were your father, you would love me, since I issued from God and come from God; for I did not come on my own account, but he sent me. Why do you not understand what I say? Because you are not able to listen to my reasoning. The father you come from is the devil and you wish to do your father's will. He has been a man killer from the beginning, and he
does not stand upon the truth because there is no truth in him. When he speaks his lie he speaks from what is his own, because he is a liar and so is his father. And because I speak the truth you do not believe me. Which one of you proves me in error? If I speak the truth, why do you not believe me? He who is from God listens to the words of God. That is why you do not listen, because you are not from God. The Jews answered and said to him: Are we not right in saying you are a Samaritan, and possessed? Jesus answered: I am not possessed, but I honor my father, and you dishonor me. I do not seek my own glory. He who seeks it is he who judges. Truly truly I tell you, he who follows my teaching shall not look on death, forever. The Jews said to him: Now we know that you are possessed. Abraham died, and the prophets died, and you say: He who follows my teaching shall not taste of death, forever. Can you be greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died. Who do you think you are? Jesus answered: If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my father who glorifies me, whom you call your God; and you do not know about him, but I know him. And if I say that I do not know him, I shall be a liar like you. But I know him and I follow his teaching. Abraham your father was joyful over seeing my day, and he did see it, and was glad. Then the Jews said to him: You are not yet fifty years old; and you have seen Abraham? Jesus said to them: Truly truly I tell you, I am from before Abraham was born. Then they picked up stones to throw at him, but he effaced himself and left the temple.
•1 On his way he saw a man who had been blind from birth. And his disciples questioned him, saying: Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, for him to be born blind? Jesus answered: Neither he nor his parents sinned; it was so that the workings of God might be made manifest in him. We must do the work of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. So saying, he spat on the ground and made mud out of the spittle, and put mud on the man's eyes, and said to him: Go and wash in the pool of Siloam (which translated means the one who has been sent). So he went and washed, and came away seeing. So his neighbors, and those who had seen him before when he was a beggar, said: Is not this the man who sat and begged? Some said: It is he. Others said: No, but it is someone like him. But he said: It is I. Then they said to ^im: How were your eyes opened? He answered: The man called Jesus made mud and smeared it on my eyes and said to me: Go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and I saw. And they said to him: Where is he? He said: I do not know. Then they took the man who had once been blind to the Pharisees. The sabbath was the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man's eyes. Then the Pharisees in tum asked him how he had got his sight. And he told them: He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see. And some of the Pharisees said: This is no man from God, since he does not keep the sabbath. But others said: How can a sinful man work such miracles? And there was division among them. So they said, once more, to the blind man: What do you have to say about him, because he opened your eyes? He said: He is a prophet. But the Jews did not believe it about him, that he had been blind and got his sight, until they called in the parents of the man who had got his sight and questioned them, saying: Is this your son, who, you say, was born blind? How is it that he can now see? His parents answered and said: We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. We do not know how it is that he now can see, and we do not know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age and he will tell you about himself. His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, because the Jews had agreed that anyone who confessed that he was Christ should be barred from the synagogue. That is why his parents said:
He is of age, ask him. Thus for the second time they summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is sinful. The man answered and said: Whether he is sinful I do not know. One thing I do know, that I was blind and now I see. Then they said to him: What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? He answered them: I told you before, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Could it be that you want to be his disciples? And they reviled him and said: You are his disciple. We are disciples of Moses. We know that God talked with Moses; but we do not know where this man is from. The man answered and said to them: Here is what is astonishing, that you do not know where he is from and he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone is pious and does his will, to that man he listens. From the beginning of time it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of one born blind; if this man were not from God, he could not have done anything. They answered and said to him: You were born all in sin; and you are teaching us? And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and he found him and said: Do you believe in the son of man? The man answered: Who is that, Lord? So that I may believe in him. Jesus said to him: You have seen him; and it is he who is talking with you. And he said: I believe, Lord. And worshipped him. And Jesus said: I have come into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may go blind. The Pharisees who were with him heard this, and they said to him: Surely, even we are not blind? Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say: We see. Your sin remains.
fl Truly truly I tell you, he who does not enter the sheep- fold through the gate but climbs into it from another place is a thief and a robber; but he who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens, and the sheep listen to his voice, and he summons his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has put all of his own outside, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice. But they will not follow a stranger but run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers. This is a parable Jesus told them; but they did not know what he was talking about. Again Jesus said: Truly truly I tell you, I ^ the gate for the sheep. All those who came before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep did not listen to them. I am the gate. Whoever enters through me shall be saved and go in and out and find pasturage. The thief does not come except to steal and slaughter and destroy; I came so that they may have life, and have abundance. I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. The man who is hired, who is no shepherd, whose sheep are not his own, sees the wolf coming and lets the sheep go and runs away; and the wolf ravages and scatters them; because he is hired and the sheep are of no concern to him. I ^ the good shepherd, and I know mine and they know me, as the father knows me and I know the father, and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep which are not from this fold; and I must bring them, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd. That is why the father loves me, because I lay down my life, so that I may take it back again. No one took it from me, but I lay it down of my own will. I have authority to lay it down and authority to take it back. This is the command I had from my father.
Once more there was division among the Jews because of those words. And many of them said: He is possessed, and raves. Why do you listen to him? Others said: These are not the words of a man possessed. Could a fiend open the eyes of the blind?
Then it was the Feast of Dedication in Jerusalem. It was winter, and Jesus walked about in the temple, in the Porch of Solomon. The Jews surrounded and said to him: How long will you go on agitating our spirits? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly. Jesus answered them: I told you, and you do not believe. The acts I perform in the name of my father, these bear me witness; but you do not believe, for you are not of my flock. My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them, and they follow me, and I give them life everlasting, and they shall not perish forever, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. What my father gave me is greater than all, and no one can snatch it from the hand of the father. I and the father are one. Then the Jews picked up stones once more, to stone him. Jesus answered them: I have shown you many good acts from my father. Fo
r which of these acts do you stone me? The Jews answered him: We stone you not for any good act, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are a man, make yourself God. Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I have said: You are gods? If he called those gods to whom the word of God came, and scripture cannot be voided, then do you say of one whom the father hallowed and sent into the world: You blaspheme; because I said I am the son of God? If I do not do the acts of my father, do not believe me. But if I do them, even if you do not believe me, believe the acts, so that you may see and know that the father is in me and I ^ in the father. Then once again they tried to seize him; and he passed through their hands.
And he went back beyond Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing before, and remained there. And many c^e to him and said: John wrought no miracle for us, but all that John said about ^rn was true. And many there believed in him.
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