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   Belief and Unbelief    
   37 Even after Jesus had performed so many signs in their presence, they still   
   would not believe in him. 38 This was to fulfill the word of Isaiah the   
   prophet:   
      
   “Lord, who has believed our message   
       and to whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed?”   
      
   39 For this reason they could not believe, because, as Isaiah says elsewhere:   
      
   40 “He has blinded their eyes   
       and hardened their hearts,   
   so they can neither see with their eyes,   
       nor understand with their hearts,   
       nor turn—and I would heal them.”   
      
   41 Isaiah said this because he saw Jesus’ glory and spoke about him.   
      
   42 Yet at the same time many even among the leaders believed in him. But   
   because of the Pharisees they would not openly acknowledge their faith for   
   fear they would be put out of the synagogue; 43 for they loved human praise   
   more than praise from God.   
      
   44 Then Jesus cried out, “Whoever believes in me does not believe in me   
   only, but in the one who sent me. 45 The one who looks at me is seeing the one   
   who sent me. 46 I have come into the world as a light, so that no one who   
   believes in me should stay    
   in darkness.   
      
   47 “If anyone hears my words but does not keep them, I do not judge that   
   person. For I did not come to judge the world, but to save the world. 48 There   
   is a judge for the one who rejects me and does not accept my words; the very   
   words I have spoken    
   will condemn them at the last day. 49 For I did not speak on my own, but the   
   Father who sent me commanded me to say all that I have spoken. 50 I know that   
   his command leads to eternal life. So whatever I say is just what the Father   
   has told me to say   
      
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    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)