The Life of Jesus

The 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!

and 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;

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

`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;

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

to 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;

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

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

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

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

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

I 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.

`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.

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

and 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;

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