Study Desk

Then the evil people began to argue among themselves, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Jesus said, "I tell you the truth, you must eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood. Otherwise, you won't have real life in you.

Knowing that his followers were complaining about this, Jesus said, "Does this teaching bother you?

After Jesus said this, many of his followers left him and stopped following him.

Jesus said to his brothers, "The right time for me has not yet come, but any time is right for you.

They were asking this to trick Jesus so that they could have some charge against him. But Jesus bent over and started writing on the ground with his finger.

His followers asked him, "Teacher, whose sin caused this man to be born blind—his own sin or his parents' sin?"

Jesus answered, "It is not this man's sin or his parents' sin that made him blind. This man was born blind so that God's power could be shown in him.

The day Jesus had made mud and healed his eyes was a Sabbath day.

His parents answered, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

But we don't know how he can now see. We don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself."

His parents said this because they were afraid of the elders, who had already decided that anyone who said Jesus was the Christ would be avoided.

That is why his parents said, "He is old enough. Ask him."

He answered, "I already told you, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his followers, too?"

Then they insulted him and said, "You are his follower, but we are followers of Moses.

The one who guards the door opens it for him. And the sheep listen to the voice of the shepherd. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he brings all his sheep out, he goes ahead of them, and they follow him because they know his voice.

But they will never follow a stranger. They will run away from him because they don't know his voice."

"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep.

Mary was the woman who later put perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair. Mary's brother was Lazarus, the man who was now sick.