John 9
1 As he passed by, Jesus saw a man who had been blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man sinned nor his parents; rather, it was so that the works of God might be revealed in him.
4 We must do the works of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 After saying this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and put the mud on his eyes.
7 He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam”—which means Sent. So he went, washed, and came back seeing.
8 His neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
9 Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he looks like him.” He himself kept saying, “I am the man.”
10 So they asked him, “How, then, were your eyes opened?”
11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went, washed, and began to see.”
12 They asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”
13 They brought the man who had once been blind to the Pharisees.
14 Now the day Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.
15 So the Pharisees also asked him again how he had come to see. He told them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and now I see.”
16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a sinful man do signs like these?” And there was division among them.
17 So they said to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
18 But the Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had come to see until they called the parents of the man who had regained his sight.
19 They asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How, then, does he see now?”
20 His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
21 But how he sees now, we don’t know; nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is old enough. He will speak for himself.”
22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be expelled from the synagogue.
23 That is why his parents said, “He is old enough; ask him.”
24 So they called the man who had been blind a second time and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
25 He answered, “Whether he is a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.”
26 So they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27 He answered them, “I already told you, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?”
28 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this man, we don’t know where he is from.”
30 The man answered them, “This is what is astonishing: you don’t know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone fears God and does his will, he listens to that person.
32 Never, at any time, has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
34 They answered him, “You were born steeped in sin, and you are teaching us?” And they threw him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36 He answered, “And who is he, sir, so that I may believe in him?”
37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him; the one speaking with you is he.”
38 He said, “I believe, Lord.” And he worshiped him.
39 Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”
40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, “Are we blind too?”
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Your sin remains.”
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