John 9:3–17

3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s worksam might be displayed in him. 4 WeF must do the worksan of him who sent meG while it is day.ao Night is coming when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”ap

6 After he said these things he spit on the ground, made some mudaq from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes. 7 “Go,” he told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam”ar (which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.as

8 His neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit begging?” 9 Some said, “He’s the one.” Others were saying, “No, but he looks like him.”

He kept saying, “I’m the one.”

10 So they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”

11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloama and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.”b

12 “Where is he?” they asked.

“I don’t know,” he said.

THE HEALED MAN’S TESTIMONY

13 They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.c 14 The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.d 15 Then the Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God,e because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful manf perform such signs?” And there was a divisiong among them.

17 Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?”

“He’s a prophet,”h he said.