e of death, forever. (53)Art thou greater than our
father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom makest
thou thyself? (54)Jesus answered: If I honor myself, my honor is
nothing. It is my Father that honors me, of whom ye say, that he is
your God. (55)And ye know him not; but I know him. And if I say, I
know him not, I shall be a liar like to you. But I know him, and I
keep his word. (56)Abraham, your father, rejoiced to see my day; and
he saw it, and was glad. (57)The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art
not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? (58)Jesus said to
them: Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. (59)They
took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and
went out of the temple.

IX.

AND passing along, he saw a man blind from his birth. (2)And his
disciples asked him, saying: Master, who sinned, this man or his
parents, that he should be born blind? (3)Jesus answered: Neither this
man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made
manifest in him. (4)I must work the works of him who sent me, while it
is day. Night is coming, when none can work. (5)As long as I am in the
world, I am the light of the world.

(6)Having thus spoken, he spit on the ground, and made clay of the
spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, (7)and
said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is interpreted,
Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

(8)The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him that he
was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sits and begs? (9)Some said:
This is he; and others: He is like him; he said: I am he.
(10)Therefore they said to him: How were thine eyes opened? (11)He
answered: A man called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and
said to me: Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash. And I went away and
washed, and received sight. (12)They said to him: Where is he? He
said: I know not.

(13)They bring to the Pharisees him who before was blind. (14)And it
was the sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
(15)Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him, how he received
sight. He said to them: He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and
do see. (16)Therefore some of the Pharisees said: This man is not from
God, because he keeps not the sabbath. Others said: How can a man that
is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them.
(17)They say t