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Why do you not know my speech? Because you cannot hear my word.

You are of your father the devil: and the desires of your father you will do. He was a murderer from the beginning: and he stood not in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaketh a lie, he speaketh of his own: for he is a liar, and the father thereof.

He that is of God heareth the words of God. Therefore you hear them not, because you are not of God.

These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.

And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy: and because that thou. being a, man, makest thyself God.

Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest; because I said: I am the Son of God?

Jesus answered: Are there not twelve hours of the day? If a man walk in the day he stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world:

But if he walk in the night, he stumbleth, because the light is not in him.

And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people who stand about have I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me.

Now he said this not because he cared for the poor; but because he was a thief and, having the purse, carried the things that were put therein.

Because many of the Jews, by reason of him, went away and believed in Jesus.

For which reason also the people came to meet him, because they heard that he had done this miracle.

Jesus answered and said: This voice came not because of me, but for your sakes.

Therefore they could not believe, because Isaias said again:

However, many of the chief men also believed in him: but because of the Pharisees they did not confess him, that they might not be cast out of the synagogue.