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The Book of Jesus Chapter Eight: The life of Jesus from the Gospels of Matthew, Mark, Luke, John in easy-to-read, chronological format.
BLIND MAN.
Lord, I believe.
NARRATOR.
And he worshipped him.
JESUS.
It is for judgement that I've come into the world, so that those who cannot see, might see and those with sight, might be made blind.
NARRATOR.
Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words and said to Jesus:
PHARISEES.
Are we also blind?
JESUS.
If you were blind, you would have no sin, but because you say, 'we see', your sin remains.
John 9:1-41
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The Good Shepherd
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JESUS.
I tell you most sincerely, anyone who does not enter the sheepfold through the gate, but climbs up some other way is a thief and a
robber. The one who enters the sheepfold by the gate is the shepherd of the sheep. To him, the gatekeeper opens the gate. The sheep
hear the shepherd's voice and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. When he has brought out his own sheep, he goes
ahead of them and the sheep follow him because they know his voice. They won't follow a stranger, but will run away from him
because they don't recognize the stranger's voice.
NARRATOR.
Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they did not understand the meaning of the things he was speaking to them about. So Jesus spoke
to them again and said:
JESUS.
I tell you most sincerely, I am the gate of the sheepfold. All others who have come before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep do
not hear them. I am the gate, anyone who enters in through me will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief comes
only to steal, to kill and destroy. I have come in order that they might have life and that they might have it more abundantly. I am the
good shepherd and the good shepherd lays down his life for his sheep. But the hired man, since he is not the shepherd and the sheep
don't belong to him, when he sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep and runs away. The wolf catches them and scatters the sheep.
The hired man runs away because he is a hired man and doesn't care for the sheep.
I am the good shepherd, I know my sheep and my sheep know me. Just as the Father knows me, even so, I know the Father and I lay
down my life for the sheep. I have other sheep which are not of this fold, these also I must lead. They will hear my voice and there
will be one fold, one shepherd. That is why my Father loves me, because I lay down my life in order that I might take it up again. No
man takes it from me, but I lay it down of my own free will. I have the power to lay it down and I have the power to take it up again.
This directive I have been given by my Father.
NARRATOR.
Again, there arouse a division among the Jews on account of the things he had said. Many of them said:
JEWS.
He's possessed with a demon and is mad, why do you listen to him?...These aren't the words of a man possessed by a demon! Can a
demon open the eyes of the blind?
John 10:1-21
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