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His neighbors and those who previously had seen him begging said, "Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?"

Now the day on which Yeshua had made the mud and opened his eyes was Shabbat.

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

but how it is that he can see now, we don't know; nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him — he's old enough, he can speak for himself!"

This is why his parents said, "He's old enough, ask him."

"I already told you," he answered, "and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Maybe you too want to become his talmidim?"

Then they railed at him. "You may be his talmid," they said, "but we are talmidim of Moshe!

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners; but if anyone fears God and does his will, God does listen to him.

This is the one the gate-keeper admits, and the sheep hear his voice. He calls his own sheep, each one by name, and leads them out.

After taking out all that are his own, he goes on ahead of them; and the sheep follow him because they recognize his voice.

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

The hired hand, since he isn't a shepherd and the sheep aren't his own, sees the wolf coming, abandons the sheep and runs away. Then the wolf drags them off and scatters them.

There was a man who had fallen sick. His name was El‘azar, and he came from Beit-Anyah, the village where Miryam and her sister Marta lived.

(This Miryam, whose brother El‘azar had become sick, is the one who poured perfume on the Lord and wiped his feet with her hair.)

Then T'oma (the name means "twin") said to his fellow talmidim, "Yes, we should go, so that we can die with him!"

Yeshua said to her, "I AM the Resurrection and the Life! Whoever puts his trust in me will live, even if he dies;

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

Yeshua said, "Take the stone away!" Marta, the sister of the dead man, said to Yeshua, "By now his body must smell, for it has been four days since he died!"

The man who had been dead came out, his hands and feet wrapped in strips of linen and his face covered with a cloth. Yeshua said to them, "Unwrap him, and let him go!"

Now he didn't speak this way on his own initiative; rather, since he was cohen gadol that year, he was prophesying that Yeshua was about to die on behalf of the nation,