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So they were seeking to seize him, and no one laid a hand on him, because his hour had not yet come.

the one who believes in me. Just as the scripture said, ‘Out of his belly will flow rivers of living water.'"

[[And each one went to his own house.

(Now they were saying this to test him, so that they would have an occasion to bring charges against him.) But Jesus, bending down, began to write with his finger on the ground, taking no notice.

He spoke these words by the treasury while teaching in the temple courts, 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! That one was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand firm in the truth, because truth is not in him. Whenever he speaks the lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

And you have not known him, but I know him. And if I were to say that I do not know him, I would be a liar like you! But I know him and I keep his word.

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

Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but it happened so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes.

(Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes was the Sabbath.)

So his parents answered and said, "We know that this man 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 a mature adult; he will speak for himself!"

(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him to be Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

Because of this his parents said, "He is a mature adult; ask him.")

He replied to them, "I told you already and you did not listen! Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become his disciples also, do you?"

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 someone is devout and does his will, he listens to this one.

For this one the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.

Whenever he sends out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.