³⁴ They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you trying to teach us?” And they drove him out.

² His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

² He asked them, “Do you think that because these Galileans suffered in this way they were worse sinners than all other Galileans?^{(A) 3} No, I tell you, but unless you repent you will all perish as they did. ⁴ Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower of Siloam fell on them—do you think that they were worse offenders than all the other people living in Jerusalem?^(B)

²⁵ “This is what the Lord has done for me in this time, when he looked favorably on me and took away the disgrace I have endured among my people.”^(A)

⁷ And the Lord will save the tents of Judah first, that the glory of the house of David and the glory of the inhabitants of Jerusalem may not be exalted over that of Judah.^(A)