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And when his brethren went up, then also he himself went up to the feast, not manifestly, but as in secret;

Jesus answered them and said, `My teaching is not mine, but His who sent me;

if any one may will to do His will, he shall know concerning the teaching, whether it is of God, or -- I do speak from myself.

`He who is speaking from himself his own glory doth seek, but he who is seeking the glory of him who sent him, this one is true, and unrighteousness is not in him;

They were seeking, therefore, to seize him, and no one laid the hand on him, because his hour had not yet come,

he who is believing in me, according as the Writing said, Rivers out of his belly shall flow of living water;'

and each one went on to his house, but Jesus went on to the mount of the Olives.

These sayings spake Jesus in the treasury, teaching in the temple, and no one seized him, because his hour had not yet come;

`Ye are of a father -- the devil, and the desires of your father ye will to do; he was a man-slayer from the beginning, and in the truth he hath not stood, because there is no truth in him; when one may speak the falsehood, of his own he speaketh, because he is a liar -- also his father.

and ye have not known Him, and I have known Him, and if I say that I have not known Him, I shall be like you -- speaking falsely; but I have known Him, and His word I keep;

and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'

Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

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

His parents answered them and said, `We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.'

These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him -- Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;

because of this his parents said -- `He is of age, ask him.'

He answered them, `I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?'

They reviled him, therefore, and said, `Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples;

and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;