To whom did he refer as one that "seeketh and judgeth"?

51. What person is described here, and from what death is he exempted?

52, 53. What said the Jews to this?" How did they misunderstand him?

Was this the result of ignorance or perverseness?

54. How did Christ answer this new charge of ambition?

How did he in his answer show his claim to their confidence?

55. What comparison did Christ draw between himself and the cavilling Jews? 56. What did he say of Abraham?

In what sense was this true?

57. What did the Jews reply?

What was their misunderstanding?

58. What did Christ declare of his pre-existence?

50 And I seek not mine own glory; there is one that seeketh and judgeth.

51 Verily, verily, I say unto you, if a man keep my saying, he shall never see death.

52 Then said the Jews unto him, Now we know that thou hast a devil. Abraham is deal, and the prophets: and thou sayest, If a man keep my saying, he shall never taste of death.

53 Art thou greater than our father Abraham, which is dead? and the prophets are dead; whom makest thou thyself?

54 Jesus answered, If I honour myself, my honour is nothing; it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God; 55 Yet ye have not known him; but I know him; and if I should say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like unto you; but I know him, and keep his saying.

56 Your father Abraham rejoiced to see my day: and he saw it, and was glad.

57 Then said the Jews unto him, Thou art not yet fifty years old, and

hast thou seen Abraham ?

58 Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Before Abraham was, I am.

59. What effect had this declaration?
Why were they so much incensed?
How did Christ escape their fury?

LESSON XXII.

The Blind Man Healed.

John ix. 1-17.

1. WHOм did Christ see as he passed by? 2. What did the disciples ask him? What did they mean by this question?

3. What did Christ reply?

Are we to understand that the man and his parents had never sinned?

What reason does Christ assign for the man's being born blind ?

4. What does Christ say of himself?

To what does he refer as "the night" and "the day"?

5. What does he declare himself to be? Is he no longer the light of the world?

59 Then took they up stones to cast at him: but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

CHAP. IX.-1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this ma:., or his parents, that he was born blind?

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

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

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

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6. What did he then do?

Was this needful to effect the cure?

7. What did he say to the blind man ? Where was this pool?

What did the blind man do?

8. What inquiry did this miracle excite among the neighbours?

9. What was said by the people in reply to these inquiries?

What did the blind man himself say?
10. What did the neighbours ask him?
11. What did the healed man say?
12. What did they ask him?
Why did they wish to know?
What did the man reply?

13. To whom was the healed man brought? 14. On what day was the cure wrought? 15. What did the Pharisees ask?

6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.

7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

8 ¶ The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged ?

9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.

10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened! 11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.

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12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not. They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. 14 And it was the sabbath-day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his

What did he reply to them?

16. How did the Pharisees attempt to evade this evidence of Christ's divine authority? What difficulty was suggested if his authority were not divine?

17. What did they then ask of the blind man?

Why did they put their question in that form?
What did the blind man reply?
Why did he think him a "prophet"?

LESSON XXIII.

The Miraculous Cure of the Blind Man.

John ix. 18-41.

18. How did the Jews evade the force of the miracle wrought on the blind man? Whom did they call to testify?

Could any one know so well as the man himself? Why did they resort to his parents?

19. What questions did they put to the parents?

sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.

16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath-day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among

them.

17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.

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

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

20, 21. What did they reply?

Can we suppose their answer to have been literally true?

22, 23. Why did his parents answer in that manner?

24. What course did they then take? What temper did this indicate?

25. How did the blind man reply to them?

Was not this enough to satisfy any candid mind 26. What further questions did they ask? 27. How did he reply?

Why did he not repeat his former answer?

28. How did the Pharisees receive this? What did they mean by speaking of themselves as the disciples of Moses?

29. What did they say of Moses and of Christ?

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

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

22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him.

24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner.

25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?

27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples ?

28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.

29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is.