John 9-10

John 9

¹And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,

²and his disciples asked him, saying, ‘Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'

³Jesus answered, ‘Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

⁴it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: --

⁵when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'

⁶These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,

⁷‘Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;

⁸the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, ‘Is not this he who is sitting and begging?'

⁹others said -- ‘This is he;' and others -- ‘He is like to him;' he himself said, -- ‘I am he.'

¹⁰They said, therefore, to him, ‘How were thine eyes opened?'

¹¹he answered and said, ‘A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'

¹²they said, therefore, to him, ‘Where is that one?' he saith, ‘I have not known.'

¹³They bring him to the Pharisees who once was blind,

¹⁴and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

¹⁵Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, ‘Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash -- and I see.'

¹⁶Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, ‘This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, ‘How is a man -- a sinful one -- able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them.

¹⁷They said to the blind man again, ‘Thou -- what dost thou say of him -- that he opened thine eyes?'

¹⁸and he said -- ‘He is a prophet.' The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight,

¹⁹and they asked them, saying, ‘Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?'

²⁰His parents answered them and said, ‘We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

²¹and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.'

²²These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him -- Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;

²³because of this his parents said -- ‘He is of age, ask him.'

²⁴They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, ‘Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;'

²⁵he answered, therefore, and said, ‘If he be a sinner -- I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'

²⁶And they said to him again, ‘What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'

²⁷He answered them, ‘I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?'

²⁸They reviled him, therefore, and said, ‘Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples;

²⁹we have known that God hath spoken to Moses, but this one -- we have not known whence he is.'

³⁰The man answered and said to them, ‘Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!

³¹and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;

³²from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind;

³³if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'

³⁴They answered and said to him, ‘In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.

³⁵Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, he said to him, ‘Dost thou believe in the Son of God?'

³⁶he answered and said, ‘Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?'

³⁷And Jesus said to him, ‘Thou hast both seen him, and he who is speaking with thee is he;'

³⁸and he said, ‘I believe, sir,' and bowed before him.

³⁹And Jesus said, ‘For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

⁴⁰And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, ‘Are we also blind?'

⁴¹Jesus said to them, ‘If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.

John 10

¹‘Verily, verily, I say to you, He who is not entering through the door to the fold of the sheep, but is going up from another side, that one is a thief and a robber;

²and he who is entering through the door is shepherd of the sheep;

³to this one the doorkeeper doth open, and the sheep hear his voice, and his own sheep he doth call by name, and doth lead them forth;

⁴and when his own sheep he may put forth, before them he goeth on, and the sheep follow him, because they have known his voice;

⁵and a stranger they will not follow, but will flee from him, because they have not known the voice of strangers.'

⁶This similitude spake Jesus to them, and they knew not what the things were that he was speaking to them;

⁷Jesus said therefore again to them, ‘Verily, verily, I say to you -- I am the door of the sheep;

⁸all, as many as came before me, are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them;

⁹I am the door, through me if any one may come in, he shall be saved, and he shall come in, and go out, and find pasture.

¹⁰‘The thief doth not come, except that he may steal, and kill, and destroy; I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.

¹¹‘I am the good shepherd; the good shepherd his life layeth down for the sheep;

¹²and the hireling, and not being a shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, doth behold the wolf coming, and doth leave the sheep, and doth flee; and the wolf catcheth them, and scattereth the sheep;

¹³and the hireling doth flee because he is an hireling, and is not caring for the sheep.

¹⁴‘I am the good shepherd, and I know my sheep, and am known by mine,

¹⁵according as the Father doth know me, and I know the Father, and my life I lay down for the sheep,

¹⁶and other sheep I have that are not of this fold, these also it behoveth me to bring, and my voice they will hear, and there shall become one flock -- one shepherd.

¹⁷‘Because of this doth the Father love me, because I lay down my life, that again I may take it;

¹⁸no one doth take it from me, but I lay it down of myself; authority I have to lay it down, and authority I have again to take it; this command I received from my Father.'

¹⁹Therefore, again, there came a division among the Jews, because of these words,

²⁰and many of them said, ‘He hath a demon, and is mad, why do ye hear him?'

²¹others said, ‘These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men's eyes to open?'

²²And the dedication in Jerusalem came, and it was winter,

²³and Jesus was walking in the temple, in the porch of Solomon,

²⁴the Jews, therefore, came round about him, and said to him, ‘Till when our soul dost thou hold in suspense? if thou art the Christ, tell us freely.'

²⁵Jesus answered them, ‘I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;

²⁶but ye do not believe, for ye are not of my sheep,

²⁷according as I said to you: My sheep my voice do hear, and I know them, and they follow me,

²⁸and life age-during I give to them, and they shall not perish -- to the age, and no one shall pluck them out of my hand;

²⁹my Father, who hath given to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to pluck out of the hand of my Father;

³⁰I and the Father are one.'

³¹Therefore, again, did the Jews take up stones that they may stone him;

³²Jesus answered them, ‘Many good works did I shew you from my Father; because of which work of them do ye stone me?'

³³The Jews answered him, saying, ‘For a good work we do not stone thee, but for evil speaking, and because thou, being a man, dost make thyself God.'

³⁴Jesus answered them, ‘Is it not having been written in your law: I said, ye are gods?

³⁵if them he did call gods unto whom the word of God came, (and the Writing is not able to be broken,)

³⁶of him whom the Father did sanctify, and send to the world, do ye say -- Thou speakest evil, because I said, Son of God I am?

³⁷if I do not the works of my Father, do not believe me;

³⁸and if I do, even if me ye may not believe, the works believe, that ye may know and may believe that in me is the Father, and I in Him.'

³⁹Therefore were they seeking again to seize him, and he went forth out of their hand,

⁴⁰and went away again to the other side of the Jordan, to the place where John was at first baptizing, and remained there,

⁴¹and many came unto him, and said -- ‘John, indeed, did no sign, and all things, as many as John said about this one were true;'

⁴²and many did believe in him there.