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New Living Translation (NLT)

John 8
⁵⁶ Your father Abraham rejoiced as he looked forward to my coming. He saw it and was glad.”
⁵⁷ The people said, “You aren’t even fifty years old. How can you say you have seen Abraham?”
⁵⁸ Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I AM!”
⁵⁹ At that point they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus was hidden from them and left the Temple.
John 9
¹ As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
² “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”
³ “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.
⁴ We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work.
⁵ But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world.”
⁶ Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes.
⁷ He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!