Study Desk

When the crowd saw that neither Jesus nor his disciples were there, they got into the boats and went to Capernaum looking for Jesus.

At that, the Jews argued among themselves, “How can this man give us his flesh to eat?”

Therefore, when many of his disciples heard this, they said, “This teaching is hard. Who can accept it?”

Jesus, knowing in himself that his disciples were complaining about this, asked them, “Does this offend you?

From that moment many of his disciples turned back and no longer accompanied him.

So his brothers said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea so your disciples can see your works that you are doing.

(For not even his brothers believed in him.)

After his brothers had gone up to the festival, then he also went up, not openly but secretly.

If anyone wants to do his will,

The one who speaks on his own seeks his own glory;

Then they tried to seize him. Yet no one laid a hand on him because his hour had not yet come.

Then each one went to his house.

He spoke these words by the treasury, while teaching in the temple. But no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come.

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

“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,”

After he said these things he spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.

His neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit begging?”

The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

Then the Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight.

The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.