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

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God's works might be revealed in him.

Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

Then the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see."

The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight

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

but we do not know how it is that now he sees, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself."

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.

Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?"

Then they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his will.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he has brought out all his own, he goes ahead of them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

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

Many of them were saying, "He has a demon and is out of his mind. Why listen to him?"

Mary was the one who anointed the Lord with perfume and wiped his feet with her hair; her brother Lazarus was ill.

Jesus, however, had been speaking about his death, but they thought that he was referring merely to sleep.

Thomas, who was called the Twin, said to his fellow disciples, "Let us also go, that we may die with him."

When Mary came where Jesus was and saw him, she knelt at his feet and said to him, "Lord, if you had been here, my brother would not have died."