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But I am a worm and not a man.
I am scorned and despised by all!
Everyone who sees me mocks me.
They sneer and shake their heads, saying,
“Is this the one who relies on the LORD?
Then let the LORD save him!
If the LORD loves him so much,
let the LORD rescue him!”
Yet you brought me safely from my mother’s womb
and led me to trust you at my mother’s breast.
I was thrust into your arms at my birth.
You have been my God from the moment I was born.
Do not stay so far from me,
for trouble is near,
and no one else can help me.
My enemies surround me like a herd of bulls;
fierce bulls of Bashan have hemmed me in!
Like lions they open their jaws against me,
roaring and tearing into their prey.
My life is poured out like water,
and all my bones are out of joint.
My heart is like wax,
melting within me.
My strength has dried up like sunbaked clay.
My tongue sticks to the roof of my mouth.
You have laid me in the dust and left me for dead.
My enemies surround me like a pack of dogs;
an evil gang closes in on me.
They have pierced my hands and feet.
I can count all my bones.
My enemies stare at me and gloat.
They divide my garments among themselves
and throw dice for my clothing.
#6007 • I AM THE GOOD SHEPHERD
THE HIRED HAND DOES NOT CARE FOR THE SHEEP
As Jesus was walking along, he
saw a man who had been blind
from birth. “Rabbi,” his disciples
asked him, “why was this man
born blind? Was it because of his
own sins or his parents’ sins?”
“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. 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. But
while I am here in the world,
I am the light of the world.”
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Then he spit on the ground,
made mud with the saliva, and
spread the mud over the blind
man’s eyes. He told him, “Go
wash yourself in the pool of
Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”).
So the man went and washed
and came back seeing!
His neighbors and others who
knew him as a blind beggar asked
each other, “Isn’t this the man
who used to sit and beg?” Some
said he was, and others said,
“No, he just looks like him!”
But the beggar kept saying,
“Yes, I am the same one!”
[JOHN 9:1–10:21]
They asked, “Who healed
you? What happened?”
He told them, “The man they
call Jesus made mud and spread
it over my eyes and told me,
‘Go to the pool of Siloam and
wash yourself.’ So I went and
washed, and now I can see!”
“Where is he now?” they
asked.
“I don’t know,” he replied.
Then they took the man who
had been blind to the Pharisees, because it was on the
Sabbath that Jesus had made
the mud and healed him. The
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