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He who speaks of his own accord seeks glory for himself; but he who seeks the glory of him who sent him, he is true, and there is no deception in his heart.

Jesus then lifted up his voice as he taught in the temple, and said, You know me, and you know whence I come; and yet I have not come of my own accord, but he who sent me is true, whom you do not know.

So they wanted to seize him; and no man laid hands on him, because his time had not yet come.

Many of the people who heard his words were saying, This man truly is a prophet.

So everyone went to his own house.

These words he spoke in the treasury, while he taught in the temple; and no man arrested him, for his time had not yet come.

You are from the father of accusation, and you want to do the lusts of your father, he who is a murderer of men from the very beginning and who never stands by the truth, because there is no truth in him. When he speaks he speaks his own lie, because he is a liar, and the father of it.

Yet you have not known him, but I do know him; and if I should say, I do not know him, I would be a liar like yourselves; but I do know him, and I obey his word.

AND as Jesus passed by he saw a man who was blind from his mother''s womb.

And his disciples asked him, saying, Teacher, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

Jesus said to them, Neither did he sin nor his parents. But that the works of God might be seen in him,

When he said these words, he spat on the ground, and mixed clay with his saliva, and he placed it on the eyes of the blind man.

His neighbors and those who had seen him before begging, said, Is not this he who used to sit down and beg?

So they brought to the Pharisees him who had been blind from his birth.

Now it was the sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

But the Jews 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 and said, We know that he is our son, and that he was born blind.

But how he sees now, or who opened his eyes, we do not know; he is of age, ask him, he will speak for himself.

His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had decided already, that if any man should confess that he is the Christ, they would put him out of the synagogue.

For this reason his parents said, He is of age, ask him.