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And they said, Is not this Jesus, the son of Joseph, whose father and mother we know? How then saith he, I came down from heaven?

It is written in the prophets, And they shall be all taught of God. Every man therefore that hath heard and learned of the Father, cometh to me.

It is the Spirit that quickeneth: the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I have spoken, they are spirit and they are life.

But there are some of you who believe not. (For Jesus had known from the beginning, who they were that believed not, and who would betray him.)

And lo he speaketh boldly, and they say nothing to him. Do the rulers know indeed, that this is the Christ?

So the officers came to the chief priests and Pharisees; and they said to them, Why have ye not brought him?

They answered and said to him, Art thou also a Galilean?

And as they continued asking him, he raised himself and said to them, He that is without sin among you, let him first cast a stone at her.

But they who heard it, went out one by one, beginning at the eldest; and Jesus was left alone, and the woman standing in the midst.

Then said they to him, Who art thou? And Jesus saith to them, Even what I say to you from the beginning.

They answered him, We are Abraham's offspring, and were never inslaved to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free.

They answered and said to him, Abraham is our father. Jesus saith to them, If ye were the children of Abraham, ye would do the works of Abraham.

Then took they up stones to cast at him; but Jesus concealed himself, and went out of the temple, going thro' the midst of them, and so passed on.

Then the neighbours and they who had seen him before, when he was blind, said, Is not this he who used to sit begging?

And I went, and washed, and received sight. Then said they to him, Where is he? He said, I know not.

And there was a division among them. They say to the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, for that he hath opened thine eyes?

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.

And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind?

Therefore they called a second time the man that had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.

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.