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Moses ordered you to circumcise your sons (although it was not Moses but your ancestors who started it), and so you circumcise a boy on the Sabbath.

If a boy is circumcised on the Sabbath so that Moses' Law is not broken, why are you angry with me because I made a man completely well on the Sabbath?

The Pharisees heard the crowd whispering these things about Jesus, so they and the chief priests sent some guards to arrest him.

The Jewish authorities said among themselves, "Where is he about to go so that we shall not find him? Will he go to the Greek cities where our people live, and teach the Greeks?

So there was a division in the crowd because of Jesus.

This crowd does not know the Law of Moses, so they are under God's curse!"

They said this to trap Jesus, so that they could accuse him. But he bent over and wrote on the ground with his finger.

But if I were to do so, my judgment would be true, because I am not alone in this; the Father who sent me is with me.

So the Jewish authorities said, "He says that we cannot go where he is going. Does this mean that he will kill himself?"

So he said to them, "When you lift up the Son of Man, you will know that ‘I Am Who I Am'; then you will know that I do nothing on my own authority, but I say only what the Father has instructed me to say.

So Jesus said to those who believed in him, "If you obey my teaching, you are really my disciples;

Jesus answered, "His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents' sins. He is blind so that God's power might be seen at work in him.

and told him, "Go and wash your face in the Pool of Siloam." (This name means "Sent.") So the man went, washed his face, and came back seeing.

Some said, "He is the one," but others said, "No he isn't; he just looks like him." So the man himself said, "I am the man."

He answered, "The man called Jesus made some mud, rubbed it on my eyes, and told me to go to Siloam and wash my face. So I went, and as soon as I washed, I could see."

So the Pharisees asked the man once more, "You say he cured you of your blindness—well, what do you say about him?" "He is a prophet," the man answered.

The man answered, "Tell me who he is, sir, so that I can believe in him!"

Jesus said, "I came to this world to judge, so that the blind should see and those who see should become blind."

So Jesus said again, "I am telling you the truth: I am the gate for the sheep.

When the hired man, who is not a shepherd and does not own the sheep, sees a wolf coming, he leaves the sheep and runs away; so the wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them.