mnt - John:9-10

mnt@John:9:1 @ Now as he was passing along he saw a man, blind from birth.

mnt@John:9:2 @ "Rabbi," his disciples asked him, "who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

mnt@John:9:3 @ "Neither he nor his parents sinned." replied Jesus; "it happened that the works of God might be made manifest in him.

mnt@John:9:4 @ "I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no man can work.

mnt@John:9:5 @ "While I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

mnt@John:9:6 @ When he had thus spoken he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and smeared the clay on the mans eyes.

mnt@John:9:7 @ Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (a word which means "sent"). So the man went and washed his eyes, and came back seeing.

mnt@John:9:8 @ Upon this the neighbors and those who used to know him by sight as a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

mnt@John:9:9 @ Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he looks like him." "I am the man," he said.

mnt@John:9:10 @ So they asked him, "How then were your eyes opened?"

mnt@John:9:11 @ He answered. "The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to Siloam and wash;so I went and washed and received my sight."

mnt@John:9:12 @ "Where is he?" they asked. "I do not know," answered the man.

mnt@John:9:13 @ Then they brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

mnt@John:9:14 @ Now it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes;

mnt@John:9:15 @ so the Pharisees again began to ask him questions about how he had regained his sight; and he said to them, "He put clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I see."

mnt@John:9:16 @ Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man in not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?"

mnt@John:9:17 @ So there was a difference of opinion among them. Accordingly they said to the blind man, "What have you to say about him, now that he has opened your eyes?" "He is a prophet," he answered.

mnt@John:9:18 @ The Jews, however, did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man whose sight had been restored,

mnt@John:9:19 @ and questioned them. "Is this your son," they said, "who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

mnt@John:9:20 @ Then in reply his parents said. "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

mnt@John:9:21 @ "but how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who has opened his eyes. Ask him, himself. He is of age. He will speak for himself."

mnt@John:9:22 @ This his parents said because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one should confess that he was the Christ, he should be expelled from the synagogue.

mnt@John:9:23 @ It was because this that his parents said. "He is of age. Ask him, himself."

mnt@John:9:24 @ So the Jews a second time summoned the man who had been blind, and said to him.

mnt@John:9:25 @ "Give glory to God! we know that this man is a sinner." Upon this the blind man answered. "I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that once I was blind, and know I can see."

mnt@John:9:26 @ "What was it he did to you?" they asked him; "How did he open your eyes?"

mnt@John:9:27 @ He answered. "I have told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you wish to hear it again? Can it be that you, too, wish to become his disciples?"

mnt@John:9:28 @ Then they stormed at him. "You are his disciple. We are Moses disciples.

mnt@John:9:29 @ "We know that God spoke to Moses. But this fellow! We do not know where he comes from."

mnt@John:9:30 @ "This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.

mnt@John:9:31 @ "We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if any one is God- fearing and does his will, to such he listens.

mnt@John:9:32 @ "Since the beginning of the world such a thing as opening the eyes of one who was born blind was never heard of.

mnt@John:9:33 @ "If this man had not come of God he could have done nothing."

mnt@John:9:34 @ They answered, "You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they cast him out.

mnt@John:9:35 @ Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of man?"

mnt@John:9:36 @ "Who is he, Sir," he replied, "that I may believe on him."

mnt@John:9:37 @ "You have already seen him," Jesus answered, "and it is he who now speaks to you."

mnt@John:9:38 @ "I do believe, Sir," said the man, and he prostrated himself at his feet. And Jesus said,

mnt@John:9:39 @ "For judgment am I come into the world, to make the sightless see, and to make the seeing blind."

mnt@John:9:40 @ Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked, "We are not blind, are we?"

mnt@John:9:41 @ "If you were blind," Jesus answered them, "you would have no sin. But now you are declaring, We see;so your sin remains.

mnt@John:10:1 @ "In solemn truth I tell you that whoever does not enter the sheepfold by the door, but climbs up some other way, that man is a thief and a robber;

mnt@John:10:2 @ "but he who comes in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

mnt@John:10:3 @ "The porter opens the door for him; the sheep listen to his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name, and leads them out.

mnt@John:10:4 @ "When he has brought all his own sheep, he walks before them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice.

mnt@John:10:5 @ "But a stranger they will not follow, but flee from him, because they do not know the voice of strangers."

mnt@John:10:6 @ Jesus told them this parable, but they did not understand what he was talking about; so he said to them again.

mnt@John:10:7 @ "In solemn truth I tell you that I am the Door of the sheep.

mnt@John:10:8 @ "All that came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them.

mnt@John:10:9 @ "I am the Door. Whoever enters by me shall be saved, and he shall go in and come out and find pasture.

mnt@John:10:10 @ "The thief never comes except to steal and kill and destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it in abundance.

mnt@John:10:11 @ "I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his very life for the sheep.

mnt@John:10:12 @ "The hired servant, since he is not a shepherd and does not own his sheep, leaves the sheep and flees when he sees a wolf coming - and the wolf worries them and scatters them.

mnt@John:10:13 @ "He is only a hired servant, and the sheep are no care to him.

mnt@John:10:14 @ "I am the good shepherd. I know my sheep, and my sheep know me;

mnt@John:10:15 @ just as the Father knows me, I know the Father, and I lay down my life for the sheep.

mnt@John:10:16 @ "I have other sheep also, which do not belong to this fold. I must bring them too, and they will listen to my voice, and they will become one flock, one shepherd.

mnt@John:10:17 @ "The Father loves me for this, because I am laying down my life that I may take it again.

mnt@John:10:18 @ "No man is taking it away from me. I am laying it down on my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and I have authority to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father."

mnt@John:10:19 @ The Jews were again divided over these words.

mnt@John:10:20 @ Many of them kept saying. "He has a demon and is mad! Why do you listen to him?"

mnt@John:10:21 @ Others were saying. "These are not the words of one demon-possessed. Can a demoniac open the eyes of the blind?"

mnt@John:10:22 @ Then came the feast of the Dedication at Jerusalem.

mnt@John:10:23 @ It was winter, and Jesus used to walk in the Temple, in Solomons Portico.

mnt@John:10:24 @ Then all the Jews encircled him and kept asking him. "How long are you going to keep us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly."

mnt@John:10:25 @ Jesus answered them. "I have told you, and you do not believe. The works which I am doing in my Fathers name, these bear witness concerning me.

mnt@John:10:26 @ "But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

mnt@John:10:27 @ "My sheep listen to my voice, and I know them and they follow me.

mnt@John:10:28 @ "I am giving them eternal life, and they shall never perish, nor shall any one snatch them out of my hand.

mnt@John:10:29 @ "My Father who has given them to me is stronger than all, and no one can snatch them out of my Fathers hand.

mnt@John:10:30 @ "I and my Father are one."

mnt@John:10:31 @ The Jews again took stones with which to stone him. Jesus said to them.

mnt@John:10:32 @ "I have shown you many good deeds from my Father. For which of these are you going to stone me?"

mnt@John:10:33 @ "We are not going to stone you for a good deed," answered the Jews, "but for blasphemy, because you, a mere man, are making yourself God."

mnt@John:10:34 @ "Is it written in your law," replied Jesus, "I said, You are gods?

mnt@John:10:35 @ "If those to whom the word of God came are called gods (and the Scripture cannot be annulled),

mnt@John:10:36 @ do you mean to tell me, whom the Father has sanctified and sent into the world, You are blaspheming, because I said, I am the Son of God?

mnt@John:10:37 @ "If I am not doing the deeds of my Father, do not believe me.

mnt@John:10:38 @ "But if I am doing them, then though you believe not me, believe the deeds, in order that you may come to know and keep on clearly understanding that the Father is in me and I am in the Father."

mnt@John:10:39 @ Then again they attempted to seize him, but he escaped out of their hands,

mnt@John:10:40 @ and went away again across the Jordan to the place where John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained.

mnt@John:10:41 @ Many who came to him said, "John did not perform any signs, but everything he said about this man was true."

mnt@John:10:42 @ And many believed on him there.

mnt@John:11:1 @ Now a man named Lazarus was ill. He was from Bethany, the village of Mary and her sister Martha