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Therefore Jesus said, "For a little while longer I am going to be with you, and then I am going to Him who sent Me.

So a dissension occurred in the crowd because of Him.

The officers answered, "Never has a man spoken in this way!"

Now the scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman caught in the act of adultery, and after placing her in the center of the courtyard,

When they persisted in asking Him, He straightened up and said to them, "He who is without sin among you, let him be the first to throw a stone at her."

Jesus answered them, "Truly, truly I say to you, everyone who commits sin is a slave of sin.

"But as it is, you are seeking to kill Me, a Man who has told you the truth, which I heard from God; this Abraham did not do.

"You are doing the deeds of your father." They said to Him, "We were not born as a result of sexual immorality; we have one Father: God."

"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 tells a lie, he speaks from his own nature, because he is a liar and the father of lies.

The Jews answered and said to Him, "Do we not rightly say that You are a Samaritan, and You have a demon?"

Jesus answered, "I do not have a demon; on the contrary, I honor My Father, and you dishonor Me.

The Jews said to Him, "Now we know that You have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets as well; and yet You say, 'If anyone follows My word, he will never taste of death.'

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 I follow His word.

As Jesus passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from birth.

So the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, "Is this not the one who used to sit and beg?"

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

Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, "This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" And there was dissension among them.

So they said again to the man who was blind, "What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a prophet."

So for a second time they summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give glory to God; we know that this Man is a sinner."

He then answered, "Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see."