John 9-10 (Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition)

John 9

 ¹And Jesus passing by, saw a man, who was blind from his birth:

    ²And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?

    ³Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

    ⁴I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.

    ⁵As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

    ⁶When he had said these things, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and spread the clay on his eyes,

    ⁷And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which is interpreted, Sent. He went therefore, and washed, and he came seeing.

    ⁸The neighbours therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This is he.

    ⁹But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he.

    ¹⁰They said therefore to him: How were thy eyes opened?

    ¹¹He answered: That man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe, and wash. And I went, I washed, and I see.

    ¹²And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not.

    ¹³They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees.

    ¹⁴Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

    ¹⁵Again therefore the Pharisees asked him, how he had received his sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and I see.

    ¹⁶Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.

    ¹⁷They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest thou of him that hath opened they eyes? And he said: He is a prophet.

    ¹⁸The Jews then did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight,

    ¹⁹And asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then doth he now see?

    ²⁰His parents answered them, and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

    ²¹But how he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: ask himself: he is of age, let him speak for himself.

    ²²These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves, that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

    ²³Therefore did his parents say: He is of age, ask himself.

    ²⁴They therefore called the man again that had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.

    ²⁵He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see.

    ²⁶They said then to him: What did he to thee? How did he open thy eyes?

    ²⁷He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard: why would you hear it again? will you also become his disciples?

    ²⁸They reviled him therefore, and said: Be thou his disciple; but we are the disciples of Moses.

    ²⁹We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not from whence he is.

    ³⁰The man answered, and said to them: Why, herein is a wonderful thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened my eyes.

    ³¹Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God, and doth his will, him he heareth.

    ³²From the beginning of the world it hath not been heard, that any man hath opened the eyes of one born blind.

    ³³Unless this man were of God, he could not do any thing.

    ³⁴They answered, and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

    ³⁵Jesus 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?

    ³⁶He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?

    ³⁷And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him; and it is he that talketh with thee.

    ³⁸And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him.

    ³⁹And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world; that they who see not, may see; and they who see, may become blind.

    ⁴⁰And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they said unto him: Are we also blind?

    ⁴¹Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.

   

John 10

 ¹Amen, 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.

    ²But he that entereth in by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.

    ³To him the porter openeth; and the sheep hear his voice: and he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out.

    ⁴And when he hath let out his own sheep, he goeth before them: and the sheep follow him, because they know his voice.

    ⁵But a stranger they follow not, but fly from him, because they know not the voice of strangers.

    ⁶This proverb Jesus spoke to them. But they understood not what he spoke to them.

    ⁷Jesus therefore said to them again: Amen, amen I say to you, I am the door of the sheep.

    ⁸All others, as many as have come, are thieves and robbers: and the sheep heard them not.

    ⁹I am the door. By me, if any man enter in, he shall be saved: and he shall go in, and go out, and shall find pastures.

    ¹⁰The thief cometh not, but for to steal, and to kill, and to destroy. I am come that they may have life, and may have it more abundantly.

    ¹¹I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd giveth his life for his sheep.

    ¹²But the hireling, and he that is not the shepherd, whose own the sheep are not, seeth the wolf coming, and leaveth the sheep, and flieth: and the wolf catcheth, and scattereth the sheep:

    ¹³And the hireling flieth, because he is a hireling: and he hath no care for the sheep.

    ¹⁴I am the good shepherd; and I know mine, and mine know me.

    ¹⁵As the Father knoweth me, and I know the Father: and I lay down my life for my sheep.

    ¹⁶And other sheep I have, that are not of this fold: them also I must bring, and they shall hear my voice, and there shall be one fold and one shepherd.

    ¹⁷Therefore doth the Father love me: because I lay down my life, that I may take it again.

    ¹⁸No man taketh it away from me: but I lay it down of myself, and I have power to lay it down: and I have power to take it up again. This commandment have I received of my Father.

    ¹⁹A dissension rose again among the Jews for these words.

    ²⁰And many of them said: He hath a devil, and is mad: why hear you him?

    ²¹Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil: Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

    ²²And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was winter.

    ²³And Jesus walked in the temple, in Solomon's porch.

    ²⁴The Jews therefore came round about him, and said to him: How long dost thou hold our souls in suspense? If thou be the Christ, tell us plainly.

    ²⁵Jesus answered them: I speak to you, and you believe not: the works that I do in the name of my Father, they give testimony of me.

    ²⁶But you do not believe, because you are not of my sheep.

    ²⁷My sheep hear my voice: and I know them, and they follow me.

    ²⁸And I give them life everlasting; and they shall not perish for ever, and no man shall pluck them out of my hand.

    ²⁹That which my Father hath given me, is greater than all: and no one can snatch them out of the hand of my Father.

    ³⁰I and the Father are one.

    ³¹The Jews then took up stones to stone him.

    ³²Jesus answered them: Many good works I have shewed you from my Father; for which of these works do you stone me?

    ³³The Jews answered him: For a good work we stone thee not, but for blasphemy; and because that thou, being a man, maketh thyself God.

    ³⁴Jesus answered them: Is it not written in your law: I said you are gods?

    ³⁵If he called them gods, to whom to word of God was spoken, and the scripture cannot be broken;

    ³⁶Do you say of him whom the Father hath sanctified and sent into the world: Thou blasphemest, because I said, I am the Son of God?

    ³⁷If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not.

    ³⁸But if I do, though you will not believe me, believe the works: that you may know and believe that the Father is in me, and I in the Father.

    ³⁹They sought therefore to take him; and he escaped out of their hands.

    ⁴⁰And he went again beyond the Jordan, into that place where John was baptizing first; and there he abode.

    ⁴¹And many resorted to him, and they said: John indeed did no sign.

    ⁴²But all things whatsoever John said of this man, were true. And many believed in him.