18. No one takes my life away from me. I give my own life freely. I have the right to give my life, and I have the right to get it back again. This is what the Father told me.”
19. Again the Jews were divided over what Jesus was saying.
20. Many of them said, “A demon has come into him and made him crazy. Why listen to him?”
21. But others said, “These aren’t the words of someone controlled by a demon. A demon cannot heal the eyes of a blind man.”
22. It was winter, and the time came for the Festival of Dedication at Jerusalem.
23. Jesus was in the Temple area at Solomon’s Porch.