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but we don't know how he can see or who healed him. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself."

"I don't know whether he is a sinner," the man replied. "But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!"

"But what did he do?" they asked. "How did he heal you?"

Then they cursed him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

We know God spoke to Moses, but we don't even know where this man comes from."

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will.

"If you were blind, you wouldn't be guilty," Jesus replied. "But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.

But the one who enters through the gate is the shepherd of the sheep.

All who came before me were thieves and robbers. But the true sheep did not listen to them.

But you don't believe me because you are not my sheep.

They replied, "We're stoning you not for any good work, but for blasphemy! You, a mere man, claim to be God."

But if I do his work, believe in the evidence of the miraculous works I have done, even if you don't believe me. Then you will know and understand that the Father is in me, and I am in the Father."

Once again they tried to arrest him, but he got away and left them.

And many followed him. "John didn't perform miraculous signs," they remarked to one another, "but everything he said about this man has come true."

But when Jesus heard about it he said, "Lazarus's sickness will not end in death. No, it happened for the glory of God so that the Son of God will receive glory from this."

But his disciples objected. "Rabbi," they said, "only a few days ago the people in Judea were trying to stone you. Are you going there again?"

But at night there is danger of stumbling because they have no light."

Then he said, "Our friend Lazarus has fallen asleep, but now I will go and wake him up."

They thought Jesus meant Lazarus was simply sleeping, but Jesus meant Lazarus had died.

When Martha got word that Jesus was coming, she went to meet him. But Mary stayed in the house.