(54)Jesus answered, If I assume glory to myself, my glory is nothing: it is the Father who glorifies me; of whom ye say, that he is your God: (55)yet have ye not known him; but I know him: and if I should say, that I know him not, I should be like you, a liar: but I know him, and observe his word. (56)Your father Abraham exulted for joy that he should see this day of mine: and saw it, and rejoiced. (57)Then said the Jews unto him, Thou hast not yet reached the age of fifty, and hast thou seen Abraham? (58)Jesus said unto them, Before Abraham had a being, I Am. (59)Then took they up stones to hurl at him: but Jesus was hid, and went out of the temple, passing through the midst of them, and so went away. CHAP. IX. AND as he passed along, he saw a man blind from his birth. (2)And his disciples inquired of him, saying, Rabbi, who was in fault, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? (3)Jesus answered, Neither hath this man been in fault, nor his parents; but it is in order to make manifest the works of God in him. (4)I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no man can work. (5)As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. (6)So speaking, he spat on the ground, and made mud with the spittle, and anointed with the mud the eyes of the blind man; (7)and said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which signifies, Sent.) Then he went and washed, and came seeing. (8)The neighbours therefore, and they who saw him formerly, that he was blind, said, Is not this the man who was sitting and begging? (9)Some said, That this is he: but others, That he is like him: he himself said, I am he. (10)When said they to him, How were thine eyes opened? (11)he answered and said, A man called Jesus made mud, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: then I went, and washing received sight. (12)They said to him, Where is he? He replied, I know not. (13)They brought him to the Pharisees, who had before been blind. (14)(Now it was the sabbath-day when Jesus made the mud, and opened his eyes.) (15)The Pharisees therefore questioned him again, How he had received sight? And he told them, He put mud upon my eyes, and I washed, and do see. (16)Then said certain of the Pharisees, This man is not from God, because he observeth not the sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a wicked man to do such miracles? And there was a division among them. (17)They say to the blind man again, What sayest thou of him? that he opened thine eyes? Then he replied, That he is a prophet.