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You do not know Him, but I know Him perfectly; and were I to deny my knowledge of Him, I should resemble you, and be a liar. On the contrary I do know Him, and I obey His commands.

Thereupon they took up stones with which to stone Him, but He hid Himself and went away out of the Temple.

"Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.

"Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man."

"Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.

but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it."

Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from."

We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.

"If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin; but as a matter of fact you boast that you see. So your sin remains!"

"In most solemn truth I tell you that the man who does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs over some other way, is a thief and a robber.

But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

But a stranger they will by no means follow, but will run away from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

Jesus spoke to them in this figurative language, but they did not understand what He meant.

All who have come before me are thieves and robbers; but the sheep would not listen to them.

No one is taking it away from me, but I myself am laying it down. I am authorized to lay it down, and I am authorized to receive it back again. This is the command I received from my Father."

But you do not believe, because you are not my sheep.

"For no good deed," the Jews replied, "are we going to stone you, but for blasphemy, and because you, who are only a man, are making yourself out to be God."

But if they are, then even if you do not believe me, at least believe the deeds, that you may know and see clearly that the Father is in me, and that I am in the Father."

This made them once more try to arrest Him, but He withdrew out of their power.