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They said, "Isn't this Yeshua Ben-Yosef? We know his father and mother! How can he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven'?"

At this, the Judeans disputed with one another, saying, "How can this man give us his flesh to eat?"

Then Yeshua said to them, "Yes, indeed! I tell you that unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood, you do not have life in yourselves.

On hearing it, many of his talmidim said, "This is a hard word — who can bear to listen to it?"

But Yeshua, aware that his talmidim were grumbling about this, said to them, "This is a trap for you?

From this time on, many of his talmidim turned back and no longer traveled around with him.

so his brothers said to him, "Leave here and go into Y'hudah, so that your talmidim can see the miracles you do;

(His brothers spoke this way because they had not put their trust in him.)

But after his brothers had gone up to the festival, he too went up, not publicly but in secret.

If anyone wants to do his will, he will know whether my teaching is from God or I speak on my own.

A person who speaks on his own is trying to win praise for himself; but a person who tries to win praise for the one who sent him is honest, there is nothing false about him.

At this, they tried to arrest him; but no one laid a hand on him; because his time had not yet come.

Whoever puts his trust in me, as the Scripture says, rivers of living water will flow from his inmost being!"

On hearing his words, some people in the crowd said, "Surely this man is ‘the prophet'";

Then they all left, each one to his own home.

They said this to trap him, so that they might have ground for bringing charges against him; but Yeshua bent down and began writing in the dust with his finger.

He said these things when he was teaching in the Temple treasury room; yet no one arrested him, because his time had not yet come.

Now you have not known him, but I do know him; indeed, if I were to say that I don't know him, I would be a liar like you! But I do know him, and I obey his word.

His talmidim asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned — this man or his parents — to cause him to be born blind?"

Yeshua answered, "His blindness is due neither to his sin nor to that of his parents; it happened so that God's power might be seen at work in him.