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"It is written in the prophets, 'AND THEY SHALL ALL BE TAUGHT OF GOD.' Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father, comes to Me.

"Not that anyone has seen the Father, except the One who is from God; He has seen the Father.

"We have believed and have come to know that You are the Holy One of God."

"If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself.

"But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.

"You are doing the deeds of your father." They said to Him, "We were not born of fornication; we have one Father: God."

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I proceeded forth and have come from God, for I have not even come on My own initiative, but He sent Me.

"He who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God."

Jesus answered, "If I glorify Myself, My glory is nothing; it is My Father who glorifies Me, of whom you say, 'He is our God';

Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner."

"We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where He is from."

"We know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.

"If this man were not from God, He could do nothing."

The Jews answered Him, "For a good work we do not stone You, but for blasphemy; and because You, being a man, make Yourself out to be God."

"If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken),

do you say of Him, whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, 'You are blaspheming,' because I said, 'I am the Son of God'?

But when Jesus heard this, He said, "This sickness is not to end in death, but for the glory of God, so that the Son of God may be glorified by it."

"Even now I know that whatever You ask of God, God will give You."