Daily Text and Bible Reading: Wednesday, November 13 [Press play below]

8.12 Then Jesus spoke again to them, saying: “I am the light of the world. Whoever follows me will by no means walk in darkness, but will possess the light of life.”
8.13 So the Pharisees said to him: “You bear witness about yourself; your witness is not true.”
8.14 In answer Jesus said to them: “Even if I do bear witness about myself, my witness is true, because I know where I came from and where I am going. But you do not know where I came from and where I am going.
8.15 You judge according to the flesh; I do not judge any man at all.
8.16 And yet even if I do judge, my judgment is truthful, because I am not alone, but the Father who sent me is with me.
8.17 Also, in your own Law it is written: ‘The witness of two men is true.’
8.18 I am one who bears witness about myself, and the Father who sent me bears witness about me.”
8.19 Then they said to him: “Where is your Father?” Jesus answered: “You know neither me nor my Father. If you did know me, you would know my Father also.”
8.20 He spoke these words in the treasury as he was teaching in the temple. But no one seized him, for his hour had not yet come.
8.21 So he said to them again: “I am going away, and you will look for me, and yet you will die in your sin. Where I am going, you cannot come.”
8.22 The Jews then began to say: “He will not kill himself, will he? Because he says, ‘Where I am going, you cannot come.’”
8.23 He went on to say to them: “You are from the realms below; I am from the realms above. You are from this world; I am not from this world.
8.24 That is why I said to you: You will die in your sins. For if you do not believe that I am the one, you will die in your sins.”
8.25 So they began to say to him: “Who are you?” Jesus replied to them: “Why am I even speaking to you at all?
8.26 I have many things to speak concerning you and to pass judgment on. As a matter of fact, the One who sent me is true, and the very things I heard from him I am speaking in the world.”
8.27 They did not grasp that he was talking to them about the Father.
8.28 Jesus then said: “After you have lifted up the Son of man, then you will know that I am he and that I do nothing of my own initiative; but just as the Father taught me, I speak these things.
8.29 And the One who sent me is with me; he did not abandon me to myself, because I always do the things pleasing to him.”
8.30 As he was saying these things, many put faith in him.
8.31 Then Jesus went on to say to the Jews who had believed him: “If you remain in my word, you are really my disciples,
8.32 and you will know the truth, and the truth will set you free.”
8.33 They replied to him: “We are Abraham’s offspring and never have been slaves to anyone. How is it you say, ‘You will become free’?”
8.34 Jesus answered them: “Most truly I say to you, every doer of sin is a slave of sin.
8.35 Moreover, the slave does not remain in the household forever; the son remains forever.
8.36 So if the Son sets you free, you will be truly free.
8.37 I know that you are Abraham’s offspring. But you are seeking to kill me, because my word makes no progress among you.
8.38 I speak the things I have seen while with my Father, but you do the things you have heard from your father.”
8.39 In answer they said to him: “Our father is Abraham.” Jesus said to them: “If you were Abraham’s children, you would be doing the works of Abraham.
8.40 But now you are seeking to kill me, a man who has told you the truth that I heard from God. Abraham did not do this.
8.41 You are doing the works of your father.” They said to him: “We were not born from immorality; we have one Father, God.”
8.42 Jesus said to them: “If God were your Father, you would love me, for I came from God and I am here. I have not come of my own initiative, but that One sent me.
8.43 Why do you not understand what I am saying? Because you cannot listen to my word.
8.44 You are from your father the Devil, and you wish to do the desires of your father. That one was a murderer when he began, and he did not stand fast in the truth, because truth is not in him. When he speaks the lie, he speaks according to his own disposition, because he is a liar and the father of the lie.
8.45 Because I, on the other hand, tell you the truth, you do not believe me.
8.46 Who of you convicts me of sin? If I speak truth, why is it that you do not believe me?
8.47 The one who is from God listens to the sayings of God. This is why you do not listen, because you are not from God.”
8.48 In answer the Jews said to him: “Are we not right in saying, ‘You are a Samaritan and have a demon’?”
8.49 Jesus answered: “I do not have a demon, but I honor my Father, and you dishonor me.
8.50 But I am not seeking glory for myself; there is One who is seeking and judging.
8.51 Most truly I say to you, if anyone observes my word, he will never see death at all.”
8.52 The Jews said to him: “Now we do know that you have a demon. Abraham died, also the prophets, but you say, ‘If anyone observes my word, he will never taste death at all.’
8.53 You are not greater than our father Abraham, who died, are you? The prophets also died. Who do you claim to be?”
8.54 Jesus answered: “If I glorify myself, my glory is nothing. It is my Father who glorifies me, the one who you say is your God.
8.55 Yet you have not known him, but I know him. And if I said I do not know him, I would be like you, a liar. But I do know him and am observing his word.
8.56 Abraham your father rejoiced greatly at the prospect of seeing my day, and he saw it and rejoiced.”
8.57 Then the Jews said to him: “You are not yet 50 years old, and still you have seen Abraham?”
8.58 Jesus said to them: “Most truly I say to you, before Abraham came into existence, I have been.”
8.59 So they picked up stones to throw at him, but Jesus hid and went out of the temple.
9.1 As he was passing along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
9.2 And his disciples asked him: “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, so that he was born blind?”
9.3 Jesus answered: “Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but it was so that the works of God might be made manifest in his case.
9.4 We must do the works of the One who sent me while it is day; the night is coming when no man can work.
9.5 As long as I am in the world, I am the world’s light.”
9.6 After he said these things, he spat on the ground and made a paste with the saliva, and he smeared the paste on the man’s eyes
9.7 and said to him: “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated “Sent Forth”). And he went and washed, and came back seeing.
9.8 Then the neighbors and those who formerly used to see that he was a beggar began to say: “This is the man who used to sit and beg, is it not?”
9.9 Some were saying: “This is he.” Others were saying: “No, but he looks like him.” The man kept saying: “I am he.”
9.10 So they asked him: “How, then, were your eyes opened?”
9.11 He answered: “The man called Jesus made a paste and smeared it on my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and gained sight.”
9.12 At this they said to him: “Where is that man?” He said: “I do not know.”
9.13 They led the formerly blind man to the Pharisees.
9.14 Incidentally, the day that Jesus made the paste and opened his eyes was the Sabbath.
9.15 So this time the Pharisees also began asking the man how he gained sight. He said to them: “He put a paste on my eyes, and I washed, and I can see.”
9.16 Some of the Pharisees then began to say: “This is not a man from God, for he does not observe the Sabbath.” Others said: “How can a man who is a sinner perform signs of that sort?” So there was a division among them.
9.17 And again they said to the blind man: “What do you say about him, since it was your eyes that he opened?” The man said: “He is a prophet.”
9.18 However, the Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had gained sight, until they called the parents of the man who could now see.
9.19 And they asked them: “Is this your son who you say was born blind? How, then, does he now see?”
9.20 His parents answered: “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
9.21 But how it is that he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is of age. He must speak for himself.”
9.22 His parents said these things because they were in fear of the Jews, for the Jews had already come to an agreement that if anyone acknowledged him as Christ, that person should be expelled from the synagogue.
9.23 This is why his parents said: “He is of age. Question him.”
9.24 So a second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him: “Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.”
9.25 He answered: “Whether he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know, that I was blind, but now I can see.”
9.26 Then they said to him: “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
9.27 He answered them: “I told you already, and yet you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become his disciples also, do you?”
9.28 At this they scornfully told him: “You are a disciple of that man, but we are disciples of Moses.
9.29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he is from.”
9.30 The man answered them: “This is certainly amazing, that you do not know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.
9.31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he listens to this one.
9.32 From of old it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of one born blind.
9.33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing at all.”
9.34 In answer they said to him: “You were altogether born in sin, and yet are you teaching us?” And they threw him out!
9.35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and on finding him, he said: “Are you putting faith in the Son of man?”
9.36 The man answered: “And who is he, sir, so that I may put faith in him?”
9.37 Jesus said to him: “You have seen him, and in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
9.38 He said: “I do put faith in him, Lord.” And he did obeisance to him.
9.39 Jesus then said: “For this judgment I came into this world, that those not seeing might see and those seeing might become blind.”
9.40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him: “We are not blind also, are we?”
9.41 Jesus said to them: “If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, ‘We see.’ Your sin remains.”