Study Desk

They were saying this, testing Him, so that they might have evidence to accuse Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.

These words He spoke in the treasury, as He was teaching in the temple; and no one seized Him, because His hour had not yet come.

You are of your father the devil, and you want to do the desires of your father. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth because there is no truth in him. Whenever he speaks a lie, he speaks from his own nature, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

and you have not known Him, but I know Him; and if I say that I do not know Him, I will be a liar like you, but I do know Him and keep His word.

And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?"

Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this was so that the works of God might be manifested in him.

When He had said this, He spat on the ground, made clay of the saliva, and rubbed the clay on his eyes,

Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

So the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received his sight. And he said to them, "He applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see."

Then, the Jews did not believe it of him that he was blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the very one who had received his sight,

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

but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. 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 if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.

For this reason his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

He answered them, "I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to listen again? Do you want to become His disciples too?"

And they reviled him and said, "You are His disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God does not listen to sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does His will, He listens to him.

To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

When he brings all his own out, 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.