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However, no one was speaking openly about Him, for fear of the Jews.

"For this reason Moses has given you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but from the fathers), and even on a Sabbath you circumcise a man.

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.

But this He said in reference to the Spirit, whom those who believed in Him were to receive; for the Spirit was not yet given, because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Now they were saying this to test Him, so that they might have grounds for accusing Him. But Jesus stooped down and with His finger wrote on the ground.

"But even if I do judge, My judgment is true; for I am not alone in it, but I and the Father who sent Me.

Then He said again to them, "I am going away, and you will look for Me, and will die in your sin; where I am going, you cannot come."

"Therefore I said to you that you will die in your sins; for unless you believe that I am, you will die in your sins."

"And He who sent Me is with Me; He has not left Me alone, for I always do the things that are pleasing to Him."

Jesus said to them, "If God were your Father, you would love Me, for I came forth from God and am here; for I have not even come on My own, but He sent Me.

"The one who is of God hears the words of God; for this reason you do not hear them, because you are not of God."

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

His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already reached the decision that if anyone confessed Him to be Christ, he was to be excommunicated from the synagogue.

It was for this reason that his parents said, "He is of age; ask him."

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."

"We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this Man, we do not know where He is from."

And Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind."

"I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd lays down His life for the sheep.

just as the Father knows Me and I know the Father; and I lay down My life for the sheep.

"For this reason the Father loves Me, because I lay down My life so that I may take it back.