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Jesus said to them, "Verily, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am."

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Then they took stones to throw at Him...

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And he went on.

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And as he passed, he saw a man blind from birth.

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His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi! Who sinned, he or his parents, that he was born blind?

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Jesus answered, "Neither he nor his parents have sinned."

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punishing children for the guilt of their fathers to the third and fourth generation...

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Why do you use this proverb in the land of Israel, saying, "The fathers ate sour grapes, but the children's teeth are set on edge"? I live! says the Lord God, "they will not speak this proverb in Israel.

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but this is in order that the works of God may be manifested in it.

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But the law came afterward, and thus the transgression increased.

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as long as there is a day;

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the night comes when no one can do.

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As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

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And when he had said this, he spat on the ground, and made clay out of the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind man with it;