ned the eyes of one born blind.
9:33. Unless this man were of God, he could not do anything.
9:34. They answered and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and
dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
9:35. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him,
he said to him: Dost thou believe in the Son of God?
9:36. He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?
9:37. And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him; and it is he that
talketh with thee.
9:38. And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him.
9:39. And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they
who see not may see; and they who see may become blind.
I am come, etc... Not that Christ came for that end, that any one should
be made blind: but that the Jews, by the abuse of his coming, and by
their not receiving him, brought upon themselves this judgment of
blindness.
9:40. And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they said
unto him: Are we also blind?
9:41. Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin:
but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.
If you were blind, etc... If you were invincibly ignorant, and had
neither read the scriptures, nor seen my miracles, you would not be
guilty of the sin of infidelity: but now, as you boast of your knowledge
of the scriptures, you are inexcusable.
John Chapter 10
Christ is the door and the good shepherd. He and his Father are one.
10:1. Amen, amen, I say to you: He that entereth not by the door into
the sheepfold but climbeth up another way, the same is a thief and a
robber.
10:2. But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.
10:3. To him the porter openeth: and the sheep hear his voice. And he
calleth his own sheep by name and leadeth them out.
10:4. And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and
the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.
10:5. But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they
know not the voice of strangers.
10:6. This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he
spoke.
10:7. Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen, I say to you, I am
the door of the sheep.
10:8. All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the
sheep heard them not.
10:9. I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and
he shall go in and go out, and shall fin
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