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You have not known him, but I know him. If I said, 'I don't know him,' I would be like you, a liar. But I know him, and keep his word.

As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.

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

Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents. But, that the works of God might be revealed in him,

It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."

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

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

but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself."

His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.

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

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

They became abusive towards him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.

The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice.

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

It was that Mary who anointed the Lord with ointment, and wiped his feet with her hair, whose brother, Lazarus, was sick.

Now Jesus had spoken of his death, but they thought that he spoke of taking rest in sleep.

Thomas therefore, who is called Didymus, said to his fellow disciples, "Let's go also, that we may die with him."