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reading plan entry for November 5
John 9 (WEBP)
[1] As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. [2] His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
[3] Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him. [4] I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. [5] While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” [6] When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, [7] and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
[8] Therefore the neighbors and those who saw that he was blind before said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?” [9] Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.”
He said, “I am he.”
[10] They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
[11] He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
[12] Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
He said, “I don’t know.”
[13] They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. [14] It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. [15] Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
[16] Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.”
Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” So there was division among them.
[17] Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
[18] The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, [19] and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
[20] His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; [21] but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.” [22] His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. [23] Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
[24] So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
[25] He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
[26] They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
[27] He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
[28] They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. [29] We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
[30] The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. [31] We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him.† [32] Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. [33] If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
[34] They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
[35] Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
[36] He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
[37] Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
[38] He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
[39] Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
[40] Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
[41] Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
John 9:31 Psalm 66:18; Proverbs 15:29; 28:9
John 10 (WEBP)
[1] “Most certainly, I tell you, one who doesn’t enter by the door into the sheep fold, but climbs up some other way, is a thief and a robber. [2] But one who enters in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. [3] The gatekeeper opens the gate for him, and the sheep listen to his voice. He calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. [4] Whenever he brings out his own sheep, he goes before them; and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. [5] They will by no means follow a stranger, but will flee from him; for they don’t know the voice of strangers.” [6] Jesus spoke this parable to them, but they didn’t understand what he was telling them.
[7] Jesus therefore said to them again, “Most certainly, I tell you, I am the sheep’s door. [8] All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep didn’t listen to them. [9] I am the door. If anyone enters in by me, he will be saved, and will go in and go out and will find pasture. [10] The thief only comes to steal, kill, and destroy. I came that they may have life, and may have it abundantly.
[11] “I am the good shepherd.† The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep. [12] He who is a hired hand, and not a shepherd, who doesn’t own the sheep, sees the wolf coming, leaves the sheep, and flees. The wolf snatches the sheep and scatters them. [13] The hired hand flees because he is a hired hand and doesn’t care for the sheep. [14] I am the good shepherd. I know my own, and I’m known by my own; [15] even as the Father knows me, and I know the Father. I lay down my life for the sheep. [16] I have other sheep which are not of this fold.† I must bring them also, and they will hear my voice. They will become one flock with one shepherd. [17] Therefore the Father loves me, because I lay down my life,† that I may take it again. [18] No one takes it away from me, but I lay it down by myself. I have power to lay it down, and I have power to take it again. I received this commandment from my Father.”
[19] Therefore a division arose again among the Jews because of these words. [20] Many of them said, “He has a demon and is insane! Why do you listen to him?” [21] Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”†
[22] It was the Feast of the Dedication° at Jerusalem. [23] It was winter, and Jesus was walking in the temple, in Solomon’s porch. [24] The Jews therefore came around him and said to him, “How long will you hold us in suspense? If you are the Christ, tell us plainly.”
[25] Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you don’t believe. The works that I do in my Father’s name, these testify about me. [26] But you don’t believe, because you are not of my sheep, as I told you. [27] My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. [28] I give eternal life to them. They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. [29] My Father who has given them to me is greater than all. No one is able to snatch them out of my Father’s hand. [30] I and the Father are one.”
[31] Therefore the Jews took up stones again to stone him. [32] Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from my Father. For which of those works do you stone me?”
[33] The Jews answered him, “We don’t stone you for a good work, but for blasphemy, because you, being a man, make yourself God.”
[34] Jesus answered them, “Isn’t it written in your law, ‘I said, you are gods’?† [35] If he called them gods, to whom the word of God came (and the Scripture can’t be broken), [36] do you say of him whom the Father sanctified and sent into the world, ‘You blaspheme,’ because I said, ‘I am the Son of God’? [37] If I don’t do the works of my Father, don’t believe me. [38] But if I do them, though you don’t believe me, believe the works, that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.”
[39] They sought again to seize him, and he went out of their hand. [40] He went away again beyond the Jordan into the place where John was baptizing at first, and he stayed there. [41] Many came to him. They said, “John indeed did no sign, but everything that John said about this man is true.” [42] Many believed in him there.
John 10:11 Isaiah 40:11; Ezekiel 34:11-12,15,22
John 10:16 Isaiah 56:8
John 10:17 Isaiah 53:7-8
John 10:21 Exodus 4:11
John 10:22 The “Feast of the Dedication” is the Greek name for “Hanukkah”, a celebration of the rededication of the Temple.
John 10:34 Psalm 82:6