4 [8:48]The Jews answered and said to him, Say we not well that you are a Samaritan, and have a demon? [8:49]Jesus answered, I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me. [8:50]But I seek not my glory; there is one that seeks and judges. [8:51]I tell you most truly, if any one shall keep my word he shall never see death. [8:52]The Jews said to him, Now we know that you have a demon. Abraham died, and the prophets; and you say, If any one shall keep my word he shall never taste death. [8:53]Are you greater than our father Abraham, who died? and the prophets died; whom do you make yourself? [8:54] Jesus answered, If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing; it is my Father who glorifies me, of whom you say, He is our God; [8:55]and you have not known him, but I have known him; and if I should say I do not know him, I should be a liar like you; but I know him and keep his word. [8:56]Abraham your father rejoiced to see my day, and he saw, and was glad. [8:57]Then the Jews said to him, You have not yet fifty years, and have you seen Abraham? [8:58]Jesus said to them, I tell you most truly, that before Abraham existed, I am. [8:59]Then they took up stones to cast at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple. CHAPTER XII. CHRIST CURING A MAN BORN BLIND, AND HIS PARABLE OF THE GOOD SHEPHERD. 1 [9:1]AND passing by he saw a man that was blind from birth; [9:2]and his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? [9:3]Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents, but that the works of God might appear in him. [9:4]I must perform the works of him that sent me, while it is day; night comes when no man can work. [9:5]While I am in the world I am the light of the world. [9:6]Saying these things he spit on the ground, and made a paste of the spittle, and put the paste on his eyes, [9:7]and said to him, Go, and wash in the pool of the Siloam; which is interpreted, Sent. Then he went away and washed, and came seeing. 2 [9:8]Then the neighbors and those who had seen him before, because he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? [9:9]Some said, This is he; others said, No, but he is like him; he said, I am he. [9:10]Then they said to him, How then were your eyes opened? [9:11]He answered, A man called Jesus made paste and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the Siloam and wash; then I went and washed, and obtained sight. [9:12]They said to him, Where is he? He said, I know not.