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Jesus having heard that they had excommunicated him; and meeting with the man, he said to him, do you believe on the son of God?

and Jesus said, to execute justice am I come into this world: that they who see not, may see; and that they who do see, may become blind.

when he lets out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him: because they know his voice.

they who have personated me, are all thieves and robbers: but the sheep did not follow them.

the thief comes only to steal, to kill, and destroy: but I am come that they might have life, and have it with all its advantages.

other sheep I have, which are not of this fold: them also I must bring; they will hear my voice; and so there shall be but one fold, and one pastor.

Jesus answered them, I told you, and ye did not believe me: the works that I do in my father's name, they testify of me.

my sheep hear my voice, I know them, and they follow me.

it is I that give them eternal life, and they shall never perish, neither shall any one force them out of my hand.

Thereupon they again endeavour'd to seize him: but he escaped out of their hands, and retir'd beyond Jordan,

the Jews then who were with Mary in the house to comfort her, when they saw that she rose in such haste, and went out, followed her, saying, she is going to the grave to weep there.

they said to him, Lord, come and see. then Jesus wept.

then they took away the stone from the place where the corps was laid. and Jesus lifting up his eyes to heaven said, "father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me.

when they were in the temple, they enquired for Jesus, and said to one another, do you think he will not be at the feast?

this passage his disciples did not understand at the first: but when Jesus was glorified, they remembred how they had mounted him, and perceiv'd that those words related to him.

and hardned their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."

if I had not appear'd, and inform'd them, they would have been innocent: but now they have no excuse for their sin.

if I had not done among them such works as no other ever did, they had been innocent: but though they have seen them, yet they hate both me and my father.

and thus will they treat you, because they have not known the father, nor me.

because they believ'd not on me; of justice, because I shall be with my father, and ye shall see me no more expos'd: