Jesus

“Why, you’re not yet fifty years old,” the Judeans replied, “and you have seen Avraham?”

Yeshua said to them, “Yes, indeed! Before Avraham came into being, I AM!”

At this, they picked up stones to throw at him; but Yeshua was hidden and left the Temple grounds.

As Yeshua passed along, he saw a man blind from birth.

His talmidim asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned — this man or his parents — to cause him to be born blind?”

Yeshua answered, “His blindness is due neither to his sin nor to that of his parents; it happened so that God’s power might be seen at work in him.

As long as it is day, we must keep doing the work of the One who sent me; the night is coming, when no one can work.

While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, put the mud on the man’s eyes,

and said to him, “Go, wash off in the Pool of Shiloach!” (The name means “sent.”) So he went and washed and came away seeing.

Some said, “Yes, he’s the one”; while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” However, he himself said, “I’m the one.”

He answered, “The man called Yeshua made mud, put it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Shiloach and wash!’ So I went; and as soon as I had washed, I could see.”

They said to him, “Where is he?” and he replied, “I don’t know.”

Now the day on which Yeshua had made the mud and opened his eyes was Shabbat.

At this, some of the P’rushim said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep Shabbat.” But others said, “How could a man who is a sinner do miracles like these?” And there was a split among them.

So once more they spoke to the blind man: “Since you’re the one whose eyes he opened, what do you say about him?” He replied: “He is a prophet.”

The parents said this because they were afraid of the Judeans, for the Judeans had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged Yeshua as the Messiah would be banned from the synagogue.

So a second time they called the man who had been blind; and they said to him, “Swear to God that you will tell the truth! We know that this man is a sinner.”

He answered, “Whether he’s a sinner or not I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, now I see.”

So they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

“I already told you,” he answered, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Maybe you too want to become his talmidim?”

Then they railed at him. “You may be his talmid,” they said, “but we are talmidim of Moshe!

We know that God has spoken to Moshe, but as for this fellow — we don’t know where he’s from!”

“What a strange thing,” the man answered, “that you don’t know where he’s from — considering that he opened my eyes!

If this man were not from God, he couldn’t do a thing!”