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So Jesus said to them, "Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink His blood, you have no life in yourselves.

Therefore many of His disciples, when they heard this said, "This is a difficult statement; who can listen to it?"

But Jesus, conscious that His disciples grumbled at this, said to them, "Does this cause you to stumble?

As a result of this many of His disciples withdrew and were not walking with Him anymore.

Therefore His brothers said to Him, "Leave here and go into Judea, so that Your disciples also may see Your works which You are doing.

For not even His brothers were believing in Him.

But when His brothers had gone up to the feast, then He Himself also went up, not publicly, but as if, in secret.

So Jesus answered them and said, "My teaching is not Mine, but His who sent Me.

"If anyone is willing to do His will, he will know of the teaching, whether it is of God or whether I speak from Myself.

"He who speaks from himself seeks his own glory; but He who is seeking the glory of the One who sent Him, He is true, and there is no unrighteousness in Him.

So they were seeking to seize Him; and no man laid his hand on Him, because His hour had not yet come.

"He who believes in Me, as the Scripture said, 'From his innermost being will flow rivers of living water.'"

[Everyone went to his home.

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

These words He spoke in the treasury, as He taught 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 come to know 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, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?"

Jesus answered, "It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,