Part 15

43:008:054 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God:

43:008:055 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you: but I know him, and keep his saying.

43:008:056 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

43:008:057 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?

43:008:058 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

43:008:059 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

43:009:001 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

43:009:002 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

43:009:003 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

43:009:004 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

43:009:005 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

43:009:006 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

43:009:007 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

43:009:008 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

43:009:009 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.

43:009:010 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?

43:009:011 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.

43:009:012 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.

43:009:013 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.

43:009:014 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

43:009:015 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.

43:009:016 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

43:009:017 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.

43:009:018 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.

43:009:019 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?

43:009:020 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

43:009:021 But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.

43:009:022 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.