Study Desk

The people were surprised when they heard him. "How does he know so much when he hasn't been trained?" they asked.

So Jesus told them, "My message is not my own; it comes from God who sent me.

For if the correct time for circumcising your son falls on the Sabbath, you go ahead and do it so as not to break the law of Moses. So why should you be angry with me for healing a man on the Sabbath?

Look beneath the surface so you can judge correctly."

So the crowd was divided about him.

They kept demanding an answer, so he stood up again and said, "All right, but let the one who has never sinned throw the first stone!"

So Jesus said, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man on the cross, then you will understand that I am he. I do nothing on my own but say only what the Father taught me.

So if the Son sets you free, you are truly free.

So when I tell the truth, you just naturally don't believe me!

Are you greater than our father Abraham? He died, and so did the prophets. Who do you think you are?"

"It was not because of his sins or his parents' sins," Jesus answered. "This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.

He told him, "Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam means "sent"). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!

He told them, "The man they call Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.' So I went and washed, and now I can see!"

The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, "He put the mud over my eyes, and when I washed it away, I could see!"

Some of the Pharisees said, "This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath." Others said, "But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?" So there was a deep division of opinion among them.

The Jewish leaders still refused to believe the man had been blind and could now see, so they called in his parents.

They asked them, "Is this your son? Was he born blind? If so, how can he now see?"

So for the second time they called in the man who had been blind and told him, "God should get the glory for this, because we know this man Jesus is a sinner."

so he explained it to them: "I tell you the truth, I am the gate for the sheep.

A hired hand will run when he sees a wolf coming. He will abandon the sheep because they don't belong to him and he isn't their shepherd. And so the wolf attacks them and scatters the flock.