‹Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw› [it], ‹and was glad.›
Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham?
Jesus said unto them, ‹Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.›
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.
And as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from [his] birth.
And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Jesus answered, ‹Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God 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.›
‹As long as 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 he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
