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[So they went away to their several homes;

They asked this in order to put Him to the test, so that they might have some charge to bring against Him. But Jesus leant forward and began to write with His finger on the ground.

So Jesus added, "When you have lifted up the Son of Man, then you will know that I am He. Of myself I do nothing; but as the Father has taught me, so I speak.

"Now," exclaimed the Jews, "we know that you are possessed by a demon. Abraham died, and so did the Prophets, and yet *you* say, `If any one shall have obeyed my teaching, he shall in no case ever taste death.'

So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"

"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" --the name means `Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

"He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight."

So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see."

And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? --for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied.

Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

"Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."

"You have seen Him," said Jesus; "and not only so: He is now speaking to you."

"If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin; but as a matter of fact you boast that you see. So your sin remains!"

when the Jews gathered round Him and kept asking Him, "How long do you mean to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us so plainly."

So the sisters sent to Him to say, "Master, he whom you hold dear is ill."

So then He told them plainly,

So Martha came and spoke to Jesus. "Master, if you had been here," she said, "my brother would not have died.

So she, on hearing that, rose up quickly to go to Him.

So the Jews who were with Mary in the house sympathizing with her, when they saw that she had risen hastily and had gone out, followed her, supposing that she was going to the tomb to weep aloud there.

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus lifted up His eyes and said, "Father, I thank Thee that Thou hast heard me.