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Again the Pharisees also asked him, How he had received his sight? He said to them, He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and see.

He said, He is a prophet. But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, till they had called the parents of him who had received his sight.

How then doth he now see? His parents answered them, and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind.

But how he now seeth, we know not, or who hath opened his eyes, we know not.

He is of age: ask him; he will speak concerning himself. His parents said this, because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed, That if any man should own him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.

Are ye also willing to be his disciples? Then they reviled him and said, Thou art a disciple of that fellow; but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God heareth not sinners; but if a man be a worshiper of God, and do his will, him he heareth.

To him the door-keeper openeth, and the sheep hear his voice, and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

And when he hath led forth his own sheep, he goeth before them, and the sheep follow him: for they know his voice.

I am the good shepherd: the good shepherd layeth 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) Therefore his sisters sent to him,

Then after this he saith to his disciples, Let us go into Judea again.

Jesus spake of his death, but they thought he had spoken of the natural rest in sleep.

Then said Thomas, called Didymus, to his fellow-disciples, Let us also go, that we may die with him.

When Mary was come where Jesus was, and saw him, she fell at his feet, saying to him, Lord, if thou hadst been here, my brother had not died.

Then they took away the stone from where the dead lay. And Jesus lifted up his eyes and said,

And he that had been dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes, and his face was wrapt about with a napkin. Jesus saith to them, Loose him, and let him go.

Jesus therefore walked no longer openly among the Jews, but went thence into the country, near the wilderness, to a city called Ephraim, and there continued with his disciples.

Then Mary, taking a pound of ointment, of very costly spikenard, anointed the feet of Jesus, and wiped his feet with her hair; and the house was filled with the odour of the ointment.