Part 247 (1/2)
Which of you convicteth me of sin? If I say truth, why do ye not believe me? He that is of G.o.d heareth the words of G.o.d: for this cause ye hear them not, because ye are not of G.o.d.”
The Jews answered and said unto him, ”Say we not well that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon?”
Jesus answered, ”I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and ye dishonor me. But I seek not mine own glory: there is one that seeketh and judgeth. Verily, verily, I say unto you, If a man keep my word he shall never see death.”
The Jews said unto him, ”Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest, 'If a man keep my word, he shall never taste of death.' Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? and the prophets are dead: whom makest thou thyself?”
Jesus answered, ”If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing: it is my Father that glorifieth me; of whom ye say, that he is your G.o.d; and ye have not known him: but I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be like unto you, a liar: but I know him, and keep his word. Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad.”
The Jews therefore said unto him, ”Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?”
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Jesus said unto them, ”Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.”
They took up stones therefore to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.
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IX
AT THE FEAST OF THE DEDICATION
_How the Lord Jesus Visited Jerusalem Yet Again, How He Restored Sight to the Blind, and How He Taught of the Good Shepherd_.
At the feast of the dedication in the winter season, Jesus came again to Jerusalem. And as he pa.s.sed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
And his disciples asked him, saying, ”Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?”
Jesus answered, ”Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but this happened that the works of G.o.d should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay, and said unto him, ”Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.”
He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing. The neighbors therefore, and they which saw him before, and knew him as a beggar, said, ”Is not this he that sat and begged?”
Some said, ”It is he”: others said, ”No, but he is like him.”
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He said, ”I am he,”
They said therefore unto him, ”How then were thine eyes opened?”
He answered, ”The man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, 'Go to Siloam, and wash': so I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
And they said unto him, ”Where is he?”
He saith, ”I know not.”
They brought to the Pharisees him that before was blind.