The Healing at the Pool on the Sabbath

5 After this there was a ^(A)feast of the Jews, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem.

² Now there is in Jerusalem by ^(B)the Sheep Gate a pool, in Aramaic^[a] called Bethesda,^[b] which has five roofed colonnades. ³ In these lay a multitude of invalids—blind, lame, and ^(C)paralyzed.^{[c] 5} One man was there who had been an invalid for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him lying there and knew that he had already been there a long time, he said to him, “Do you want to be healed?” ⁷ The sick man answered him, “Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up, and while I am going another steps down before me.” ⁸ Jesus said to him, ^(D)“Get up, take up your bed, and walk.” ^9 (E)And at once the man was healed, and he took up his bed and walked.

^(F)Now that day was the Sabbath. ¹⁰ So the Jews^[d] said to the man who had been healed, “It is the Sabbath, and ^(G)it is not lawful for you to take up your bed.” ¹¹ But he answered them, “The man who healed me, that man said to me, ‘Take up your bed, and walk.’” ¹² They asked him, “Who is the man who said to you, ‘Take up your bed and walk’?” ¹³ Now the man who had been healed did not know who it was, for ^(H)Jesus had withdrawn, as there was a crowd in the place. ¹⁴ Afterward Jesus found him in the temple and said to him, “See, you are well! ^(I)Sin no more, ^(J)that nothing worse may happen to you.” ¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jews that it was Jesus who had healed him. ¹⁶ And this was why the Jews ^(K)were persecuting Jesus, ^(L)because he was doing these things on the Sabbath. ¹⁷ But Jesus answered them, “My Father is working until now, and I am working.”

Jesus Is Equal with God

¹⁸ This was why the Jews ^(M)were seeking all the more to kill him, ^(N)because not only was he ^(O)breaking the Sabbath, but he was even calling God ^(P)his own Father, ^(Q)making himself equal with God.

The Authority of the Son

¹⁹ So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(R)the Son ^(S)can do nothing of his own accord, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father^[e] does, that the Son does likewise. ²⁰ For ^(T)the Father loves the Son and shows him all that he himself is doing. And ^(U)greater works than these will he show him, so that ^(V)you may marvel. ²¹ For as the Father ^(W)raises the dead and ^(X)gives them life, so ^(Y)also the Son gives life ^(Z)to whom he will. ^22 (AA)For the Father judges no one, but ^(AB)has given all judgment to the Son, ²³ that all may honor the Son, just as they ^(AC)honor the Father. ^(AD)Whoever does not honor the Son does not honor the Father who sent him. ²⁴ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AE)whoever hears my word and ^(AF)believes him who sent me has eternal life. He ^(AG)does not come into judgment, but ^(AH)has passed from death to life.

²⁵ “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(AI)an hour is coming, and is now here, when ^(AJ)the dead will hear ^(AK)the voice of the Son of God, and those who hear ^(AL)will live. ^26 (AM)For as the Father has life in himself, ^(AN)so he has granted the Son also to have life in himself. ²⁷ And he ^(AO)has given him authority to execute judgment, because he is the Son of Man. ²⁸ Do not marvel at this, for ^(AP)an hour is coming when ^(AQ)all who are in the tombs will hear his voice ²⁹ and come out, ^(AR)those who have done good to the resurrection of life, and those who have done evil to the resurrection of judgment.

Witnesses to Jesus

^30 (AS)“I can do nothing on my own. As I hear, I judge, and ^(AT)my judgment is just, because ^(AU)I seek not my own will ^(AV)but the will of him who sent me. ^31 (AW)If I alone bear witness about myself, my testimony is not true. ³² There is ^(AX)another who bears witness about me, and ^(AY)I know that the testimony that he bears about me is true. ^33 (AZ)You sent to John, and he has borne witness to the truth. ³⁴ Not that ^(BA)the testimony that I receive is from man, but I say these things so that you may be saved. ³⁵ He was a burning and ^(BB)shining lamp, and ^(BC)you were willing to rejoice for a while in his light. ³⁶ But ^(BD)the testimony that I have is greater than that of John. For ^(BE)the works that the Father has given me ^(BF)to accomplish, the very works that I am doing, ^(BG)bear witness about me that ^(BH)the Father has sent me. ³⁷ And the Father who sent me ^(BI)has himself borne witness about me. His voice you have never heard, ^(BJ)his form you have never seen, ³⁸ and ^(BK)you do not have his word abiding in you, for you do not believe the one whom he has sent. ^39 (BL)You search the Scriptures because you think that in them you have eternal life; and ^(BM)it is they that bear witness about me, ⁴⁰ yet ^(BN)you refuse to come to me that you may have life. ^41 (BO)I do not receive glory from people. ⁴² But ^(BP)I know that you do not have ^(BQ)the love of God within you. ⁴³ I have come ^(BR)in my Father's name, and ^(BS)you do not receive me. ^(BT)If another comes in his own name, you will receive him. ⁴⁴ How can you believe, when you receive glory from one another and ^(BU)do not seek the glory that comes from ^(BV)the only God? ⁴⁵ Do not think that I will accuse you to the Father. There is one who accuses you: Moses, ^(BW)on whom you have set your hope. ⁴⁶ For if you believed Moses, you would believe me; for ^(BX)he wrote of me. ⁴⁷ But ^(BY)if you do not believe his writings, how will you believe my words?”

Jesus Feeds the Five Thousand

6 After this ^(BZ)Jesus went away to the other side of ^(CA)the Sea of Galilee, which is ^(CB)the Sea of Tiberias. ² And a large crowd was following him, because they saw the signs that he was doing on the sick. ³ Jesus went up on ^(CC)the mountain, and there he sat down with his disciples. ⁴ Now ^(CD)the Passover, the ^(CE)feast of the Jews, was at hand. ^5 (CF)Lifting up his eyes, then, and seeing that a large crowd was coming toward him, Jesus said to ^(CG)Philip, “Where are we to buy bread, so that these people may eat?” ⁶ He said this to test him, for he himself knew what he would do. ^7 (CH)Philip answered him, “Two hundred denarii^[f] worth of bread would not be enough for each of them to get a little.” ⁸ One of his disciples, ^(CI)Andrew, Simon Peter's brother, said to him, ⁹ “There is a boy here who has five ^(CJ)barley loaves and two fish, but ^(CK)what are they for so many?” ¹⁰ Jesus said, “Have the people sit down.” ^(CL)Now there was much grass in the place. So the men sat down, about five thousand in number. ¹¹ Jesus then took the loaves, and ^(CM)when he had given thanks, he distributed them to those who were seated. So also the fish, as much as they wanted. ¹² And when they had eaten their fill, he told his disciples, “Gather up the leftover fragments, that nothing may be lost.” ¹³ So they gathered them up and filled twelve baskets with fragments from the five barley loaves left by those who had eaten. ¹⁴ When the people saw the sign that he had done, they said, ^(CN)“This is indeed ^(CO)the Prophet ^(CP)who is to come into the world!”

^15 (CQ)Perceiving then that they were about to come and take him by force to make him king, Jesus ^(CR)withdrew again to ^(CS)the mountain by himself.

Jesus Walks on Water

¹⁶ When evening came, his disciples went down to the sea, ¹⁷ got into a boat, and started across the sea to Capernaum. It was now dark, and Jesus had not yet come to them. ¹⁸ The sea became rough because a strong wind was blowing. ¹⁹ When they had rowed about three or four miles,^[g] they saw Jesus walking on the sea and coming near the boat, and they were frightened. ^20 (CT)But he said to them, “It is I; do not be afraid.” ²¹ Then they were glad to take him into the boat, and immediately the boat was at the land to which they were going.

I Am the Bread of Life

²² On the next day the crowd that remained on the other side of the sea saw that there had been only ^(CU)one boat there, and that Jesus had not entered the boat with his disciples, but that his disciples had gone away alone. ²³ Other boats from Tiberias came near the place where they had eaten the bread after the Lord ^(CV)had given thanks. ^24 (CW)So when the crowd saw that Jesus was not there, nor his disciples, they themselves got into the boats and ^(CX)went to Capernaum, seeking Jesus.

²⁵ When they found him on the other side of the sea, they said to him, ^(CY)“Rabbi, when did you come here?” ²⁶ Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(CZ)you are seeking me, not because you saw ^(DA)signs, but because you ate your fill of the loaves. ^27 (DB)Do not work for the food that perishes, but for ^(DC)the food that endures to eternal life, which ^(DD)the Son of Man will give to you. For on ^(DE)him God the Father has ^(DF)set his seal.” ²⁸ Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing ^(DG)the works of God?” ²⁹ Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, ^(DH)that you believe in him whom ^(DI)he has sent.” ³⁰ So they said to him, ^(DJ)“Then what sign do you do, that we may see and believe you? What work do you perform? ^31 (DK)Our fathers ate the manna in the wilderness; as it is written, ^(DL)‘He gave them bread from heaven to eat.’” ³² Jesus then said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, it was not Moses who gave you the bread from heaven, but my Father gives you the true bread from heaven. ³³ For the bread of God is ^(DM)he who comes down from heaven and gives life to the world.” ³⁴ They said to him, ^(DN)“Sir, give us this bread always.”

³⁵ Jesus said to them, ^(DO)“I am the bread of life; ^(DP)whoever comes to me shall not hunger, and whoever believes in me shall never thirst. ³⁶ But I said to you that you have seen me and yet do not believe. ^37 (DQ)All that ^(DR)the Father gives me will come to me, and ^(DS)whoever comes to me I will never cast out. ³⁸ For ^(DT)I have come down from heaven, not to do ^(DU)my own will but ^(DV)the will of him ^(DW)who sent me. ³⁹ And ^(DX)this is the will of him who sent me, ^(DY)that I should lose nothing of ^(DZ)all that he has given me, but ^(EA)raise it up on the last day. ⁴⁰ For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who ^(EB)looks on the Son and ^(EC)believes in him ^(ED)should have eternal life, and I will raise him up on the last day.”

⁴¹ So the Jews grumbled about him, because he said, ^(EE)“I am the bread that came down from heaven.” ⁴² They said, ^(EF)“Is not this Jesus, ^(EG)the son of Joseph, whose father and mother ^(EH)we know? How does he now say, ‘I have come down from heaven’?” ⁴³ Jesus answered them, “Do not grumble among yourselves. ⁴⁴ No one can come to me unless the Father who sent me ^(EI)draws him. And ^(EJ)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁴⁵ It is written in the Prophets, ^(EK)‘And they will all be ^(EL)taught by God.’ ^(EM)Everyone who has heard and learned from the Father comes to me— ^46 (EN)not that anyone has seen the Father except ^(EO)he who is from God; he ^(EP)has seen the Father. ⁴⁷ Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(EQ)whoever believes has eternal life. ^48 (ER)I am the bread of life. ^49 (ES)Your fathers ate the manna in the wilderness, and ^(ET)they died. ^50 (EU)This is the bread that comes down from heaven, so that one may eat of it ^(EV)and not die. ⁵¹ I am the living bread ^(EW)that came down from heaven. If anyone eats of this bread, he will live forever. And the bread that I will give ^(EX)for the life of the world is ^(EY)my flesh.”

⁵² The Jews then ^(EZ)disputed among themselves, saying, ^(FA)“How can this man give us his flesh to eat?” ⁵³ So Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, unless you eat the flesh of ^(FB)the Son of Man and drink his blood, you ^(FC)have no life in you. ⁵⁴ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(FD)has eternal life, and ^(FE)I will raise him up on the last day. ⁵⁵ For my flesh is true food, and my blood is true drink. ⁵⁶ Whoever feeds on my flesh and drinks my blood ^(FF)abides in me, and I in him. ⁵⁷ As ^(FG)the living Father ^(FH)sent me, and ^(FI)I live because of the Father, so whoever feeds on me, he also will live because of me. ^58 (FJ)This is the bread that came down from heaven, not like the bread^[h] the fathers ate, and died. Whoever feeds on this bread will live forever.” ⁵⁹ Jesus^[i] said these things in the synagogue, as he taught ^(FK)at Capernaum.

The Words of Eternal Life

^60 (FL)When many of his disciples heard it, they said, “This is a hard saying; who can listen to it?” ⁶¹ But Jesus, ^(FM)knowing in himself that his disciples were grumbling about this, said to them, “Do you take offense at this? ⁶² Then what if you were to see ^(FN)the Son of Man ^(FO)ascending to ^(FP)where he was before? ^63 (FQ)It is the Spirit who gives life; ^(FR)the flesh is no help at all. ^(FS)The words that I have spoken to you are spirit and life. ⁶⁴ But ^(FT)there are some of you who do not believe.” (For Jesus ^(FU)knew from the beginning who those were who did not believe, and ^(FV)who it was who would betray him.) ⁶⁵ And he said, “This is why I told you ^(FW)that no one can come to me unless it is granted him by the Father.”

^66 (FX)After this many of his disciples turned back and no longer walked with him. ⁶⁷ So Jesus said to ^(FY)the twelve, “Do you want to go away as well?” ⁶⁸ Simon Peter answered him, “Lord, to whom shall we go? You have ^(FZ)the words of eternal life, ⁶⁹ and ^(GA)we have believed, and have come to know, that ^(GB)you are ^(GC)the Holy One of God.” ⁷⁰ Jesus answered them, ^(GD)“Did I not choose you, ^(GE)the twelve? And yet one of you is ^(GF)a devil.” ⁷¹ He spoke of Judas ^(GG)the son of Simon Iscariot, for ^(GH)he, one of the twelve, was going to betray him.

Jesus at the Feast of Booths

7 After this Jesus went about in Galilee. He would not go about in Judea, because ^(GI)the Jews^[j] were seeking to kill him. ² Now ^(GJ)the Jews' Feast of ^(GK)Booths was at hand. ^3 (GL)So his brothers^[k] said to him, “Leave here and go to Judea, that your disciples also may see the works you are doing. ⁴ For no one works in secret if he seeks to be known openly. If you do these things, ^(GM)show yourself to the world.” ^5 (GN)For not even ^(GO)his brothers believed in him. ⁶ Jesus said to them, ^(GP)“My time has not yet come, but your time is always here. ⁷ The world cannot hate you, but ^(GQ)it hates me because I testify about it that ^(GR)its works are evil. ⁸ You go up to the feast. I am not^[l] going up to this feast, for ^(GS)my time has not yet fully come.” ⁹ After saying this, he remained in Galilee.

¹⁰ But after ^(GT)his brothers had gone up to the feast, then he also went up, not publicly but in private. ^11 (GU)The Jews ^(GV)were looking for him at the feast, and saying, “Where is he?” ¹² And there was much ^(GW)muttering about him among the people. ^(GX)While some said, “He is a good man,” others said, “No, ^(GY)he is leading the people astray.” ¹³ Yet ^(GZ)for fear of the Jews no one spoke openly of him.

¹⁴ About the middle of the feast Jesus went up ^(HA)into the temple and began teaching. ¹⁵ The Jews therefore ^(HB)marveled, saying, “How is it that this man has learning,^[m] when he has never studied?” ¹⁶ So Jesus answered them, ^(HC)“My teaching is not mine, but his ^(HD)who sent me. ^17 (HE)If anyone's will is to do God's^[n] will, ^(HF)he will know whether the teaching is from God or whether I ^(HG)am speaking on my own authority. ¹⁸ The one who speaks on his own authority ^(HH)seeks his own glory; but the one who seeks the glory of him who sent him is true, and in him there is no falsehood. ^19 (HI)Has not Moses given you the law? Yet none of you keeps the law. ^(HJ)Why do you seek to kill me?” ²⁰ The crowd answered, ^(HK)“You have a demon! Who is seeking to kill you?” ²¹ Jesus answered them, “I did ^(HL)one work, and you all marvel at it. ^22 (HM)Moses gave you circumcision (not that it is from Moses, but ^(HN)from the fathers), and you circumcise a man on the Sabbath. ²³ If on the Sabbath a man receives circumcision, so that the law of Moses may not be broken, ^(HO)are you angry with me because on the Sabbath I made a man's whole body well? ^24 (HP)Do not judge by appearances, but judge with right judgment.”

Can This Be the Christ?

²⁵ Some of the people of Jerusalem therefore said, “Is not this the man whom ^(HQ)they seek to kill? ²⁶ And here he is, ^(HR)speaking openly, and they say nothing to him! Can it be that ^(HS)the authorities really know that this is the Christ? ²⁷ But ^(HT)we know ^(HU)where this man comes from, and when the Christ appears, ^(HV)no one will know where he comes from.” ²⁸ So Jesus proclaimed, ^(HW)as he taught in the temple, ^(HX)“You know me, and you know where I come from. But ^(HY)I have not come of my own accord. ^(HZ)He who sent me is true, ^(IA)and him you do not know. ^29 (IB)I know him, for I come ^(IC)from him, and ^(ID)he sent me.” ^30 (IE)So they were seeking to arrest him, but ^(IF)no one laid a hand on him, ^(IG)because his hour had not yet come. ³¹ Yet ^(IH)many of the people believed in him. They said, ^(II)“When the Christ appears, will he do more signs than this man has done?”

Officers Sent to Arrest Jesus

³² The Pharisees heard the crowd ^(IJ)muttering these things about him, and the chief priests and Pharisees sent ^(IK)officers to arrest him. ³³ Jesus then said, ^(IL)“I will be with you a little longer, and then ^(IM)I am going to him who sent me. ^34 (IN)You will seek me and you will not find me. Where I am you cannot come.” ³⁵ The Jews said to one another, “Where does this man intend to go that we will not find him? ^(IO)Does he intend to go to ^(IP)the Dispersion among ^(IQ)the Greeks and teach the Greeks? ³⁶ What does he mean by saying, ^(IR)‘You will seek me and you will not find me,’ and, ‘Where I am you cannot come’?”

Rivers of Living Water

^37 (IS)On the last day of the feast, the great day, Jesus stood up and cried out, ^(IT)“If anyone thirsts, let him ^(IU)come to me and drink. ³⁸ Whoever believes in me, ^(IV)as^[o] the Scripture has said, ^(IW)‘Out of his heart will flow rivers of ^(IX)living water.’” ³⁹ Now ^(IY)this he said about the Spirit, ^(IZ)whom those who believed in him were to receive, ^(JA)for as yet the Spirit had not been ^(JB)given, ^(JC)because Jesus was not yet glorified.

Division Among the People

⁴⁰ When they heard these words, ^(JD)some of the people said, “This really is ^(JE)the Prophet.” ⁴¹ Others said, “This is ^(JF)the Christ.” But some said, ^(JG)“Is the Christ to come from Galilee? ⁴² Has not the Scripture said that the Christ comes ^(JH)from the offspring of David, and comes ^(JI)from Bethlehem, the village ^(JJ)where David was?” ⁴³ So there was ^(JK)a division among the people over him. ^44 (JL)Some of them wanted to arrest him, but no one laid hands on him.

^45 (JM)The officers then came to the chief priests and Pharisees, who said to them, “Why did you not bring him?” ⁴⁶ The officers answered, ^(JN)“No one ever spoke like this man!” ⁴⁷ The Pharisees answered them, ^(JO)“Have you also been deceived? ^48 (JP)Have any of the authorities or the Pharisees believed in him? ⁴⁹ But this crowd that does not know the law is accursed.” ^50 (JQ)Nicodemus, who had gone to him before, and who was one of them, said to them, ^51 (JR)“Does our law judge a man without first ^(JS)giving him a hearing and learning what he does?” ⁵² They replied, ^(JT)“Are you from Galilee too? Search and see that ^(JU)no prophet arises from Galilee.”

[The earliest manuscripts do not include 7:53–8:11.]^[p]

The Woman Caught in Adultery

⁵³ [[They went each to his own house, 8 ¹ but Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. ^2 (JV)Early in the morning he came again to the temple. All the people came to him, and ^(JW)he sat down and taught them. ³ The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman who had been caught in adultery, and placing her in the midst ⁴ they said to him, “Teacher, this woman has been caught in the act of adultery. ⁵ Now ^(JX)in the Law, Moses commanded us ^(JY)to stone such women. So what do you say?” ⁶ This they said ^(JZ)to test him, ^(KA)that they might have some charge to bring against him. Jesus bent down and wrote with his finger on the ground. ⁷ And as they continued to ask him, he stood up and said to them, ^(KB)“Let him who is without sin among you ^(KC)be the first to throw a stone at her.” ⁸ And once more he bent down and wrote on the ground. ⁹ But when they heard it, they went away one by one, beginning with the older ones, and Jesus was left alone with the woman standing before him. ¹⁰ Jesus stood up and said to her, “Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?” ¹¹ She said, “No one, Lord.” And Jesus said, ^(KD)“Neither do I condemn you; go, and from now on ^(KE)sin no more.”]]

I Am the Light of the World

^12 (KF)Again Jesus spoke to them, saying, ^(KG)“I am the light of the world. Whoever ^(KH)follows me will not ^(KI)walk in darkness, but will have the light of life.” ¹³ So the Pharisees said to him, ^(KJ)“You are bearing witness about yourself; your testimony is not true.” ¹⁴ Jesus answered, “Even if I do bear witness about myself, ^(KK)my testimony is true, for I know ^(KL)where I came from and ^(KM)where I am going, but ^(KN)you do not know where I come from or where I am going. ^15 (KO)You judge according to the flesh; ^(KP)I judge no one. ¹⁶ Yet even if I do judge, ^(KQ)my judgment is true, for ^(KR)it is not I alone who judge, but I and the Father^[q] who sent me. ^17 (KS)In your Law it is written that the testimony of two people is true. ¹⁸ I am the one who bears witness about myself, and ^(KT)the Father who sent me bears witness about me.” ¹⁹ They said to him therefore, “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered, ^(KU)“You know neither me nor my Father. ^(KV)If you knew me, you would know my Father also.” ²⁰ These words he spoke in ^(KW)the treasury, as he taught in the temple; but ^(KX)no one arrested him, because ^(KY)his hour had not yet come.

²¹ So he said to them again, ^(KZ)“I am going away, and ^(LA)you will seek me, and ^(LB)you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.” ²² So the Jews said, ^(LC)“Will he kill himself, since he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come’?” ²³ He said to them, ^(LD)“You are from below; I am from above. ^(LE)You are of this world; ^(LF)I am not of this world. ²⁴ I told you that you ^(LG)would die in your sins, for ^(LH)unless you believe that ^(LI)I am he you will die in your sins.” ²⁵ So they said to him, ^(LJ)“Who are you?” Jesus said to them, “Just what I have been telling you from the beginning. ²⁶ I have much to say about you and much to judge, but ^(LK)he who sent me is true, and I declare ^(LL)to the world ^(LM)what I have heard from him.” ²⁷ They did not understand that ^(LN)he had been speaking to them about the Father. ²⁸ So Jesus said to them, “When you have ^(LO)lifted up the Son of Man, ^(LP)then you will know that ^(LQ)I am he, and that ^(LR)I do nothing on my own authority, but ^(LS)speak just as the Father taught me. ²⁹ And ^(LT)he who sent me is with me. ^(LU)He has not left me alone, for ^(LV)I always do the things that are pleasing to him.” ³⁰ As he was saying these things, ^(LW)many believed in him.

The Truth Will Set You Free

³¹ So Jesus said to the Jews who had believed him, ^(LX)“If you abide in my word, you are truly my disciples, ³² and you will ^(LY)know the truth, and the truth ^(LZ)will set you free.” ³³ They answered him, ^(MA)“We are offspring of Abraham and have never been enslaved to anyone. How is it that you say, ‘You will become free’?”

³⁴ Jesus answered them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^(MB)everyone who practices sin is a slave^[r] to sin. ^35 (MC)The slave does not remain in the house forever; ^(MD)the son remains forever. ³⁶ So if the Son sets you free, you will be free indeed. ³⁷ I know that you are offspring of Abraham; yet ^(ME)you seek to kill me because my word finds no place in you. ^38 (MF)I speak of what I have seen with my Father, and you do what you have heard ^(MG)from your father.”

You Are of Your Father the Devil

³⁹ They answered him, ^(MH)“Abraham is our father.” Jesus said to them, ^(MI)“If you were Abraham's children, you would be doing the works Abraham did, ⁴⁰ but now ^(MJ)you seek to kill me, a man who has told you the truth ^(MK)that I heard from God. This is not what Abraham did. ⁴¹ You are doing the works your father did.” They said to him, ^(ML)“We were not born of sexual immorality. We have ^(MM)one Father—even God.” ⁴² Jesus said to them, ^(MN)“If God were your Father, you would love me, for ^(MO)I came from God and ^(MP)I am here. ^(MQ)I came not of my own accord, but ^(MR)he sent me. ^43 (MS)Why do you not understand what I say? It is because you cannot ^(MT)bear to hear my word. ^44 (MU)You are of your father the devil, and your will is to do your father's desires. ^(MV)He was a murderer from the beginning, and ^(MW)does not stand in the truth, because there is no truth in him. ^(MX)When he lies, he speaks out of his own character, for he is a liar and the father of lies. ⁴⁵ But because I tell the truth, you do not believe me. ⁴⁶ Which one of you convicts me of sin? If I tell the truth, why do you not believe me? ^47 (MY)Whoever is of God hears the words of God. ^(MZ)The reason why you do not hear them is that ^(NA)you are not of God.”

Before Abraham Was, I Am

⁴⁸ The Jews answered him, “Are we not right in saying that you are a Samaritan and ^(NB)have a demon?” ⁴⁹ Jesus answered, “I do not have a demon, but ^(NC)I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. ⁵⁰ Yet ^(ND)I do not seek my own glory; there is One who seeks it, and he is the judge. ⁵¹ Truly, truly, ^(NE)I say to you, if anyone keeps my word, he will never ^(NF)see death.” ⁵² The Jews said to him, “Now we know that you have a demon! ^(NG)Abraham died, as did the prophets, yet ^(NH)you say, ‘If anyone keeps my word, he will never ^(NI)taste death.’ ^53 (NJ)Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? And the prophets died! Who do you make yourself out to be?” ⁵⁴ Jesus answered, ^(NK)“If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. ^(NL)It is my Father who glorifies me, ^(NM)of whom you say, ‘He is our God.’^{[s] 55} But ^(NN)you have not known him. ^(NO)I know him. If I were to say that I do not know him, I would be ^(NP)a liar ^(NQ)like you, but I do know him and I keep his word. ^56 (NR)Your father Abraham ^(NS)rejoiced ^(NT)that he would see my day. ^(NU)He saw it and was glad.” ⁵⁷ So the Jews said to him, “You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?”^{[t] 58} Jesus said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, ^(NV)I am.” ⁵⁹ So ^(NW)they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid himself and went out of the temple.

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

9 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ² And his disciples asked him, ^(NX)“Rabbi, ^(NY)who sinned, ^(NZ)this man or ^(OA)his parents, that he was born blind?” ³ Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but ^(OB)that the works of God might be displayed in him. ⁴ We must ^(OC)work the works of him who sent me ^(OD)while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ As long as I am in the world, ^(OE)I am the light of the world.” ⁶ Having said these things, ^(OF)he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. ^(OG)Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud ⁷ and said to him, “Go, wash in ^(OH)the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and ^(OI)came back seeing.

⁸ The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, ^(OJ)“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹ Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” ¹⁰ So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” ¹¹ He answered, ^(OK)“The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” ¹² They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

¹³ They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. ^14 (OL)Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ^15 (OM)So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶ Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not ^(ON)from God, ^(OO)for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, ^(OP)“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And ^(OQ)there was a division among them. ¹⁷ So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, ^(OR)“He is a prophet.”

^18 (OS)The Jews^[u] did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight ¹⁹ and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” ²⁰ His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. ²¹ But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”