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So Jesus answered them, "My teaching is not mine, but his who sent me.

The one who speaks on his own authority seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood.

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

Whoever believes in me, as the Scripture has said, ‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of living water.'"

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This they said to test him, that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground.

These words he spoke in the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but no one arrested him, because his hour had not yet come.

You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. He was a murderer from the beginning, and does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies.

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

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

Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

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

So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see."

The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight

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

But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself."

(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)

Therefore his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

He answered them, "I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?"

And they reviled him, saying, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.