John 9–10

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

9As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ²And his disciples asked him, ^c“Rabbi, ^dwho sinned, ^ethis man or ^fhis parents, that he was born blind?” ³Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but ^gthat the works of God might be displayed in him. ⁴We must ^hwork the works of him who sent me ⁱwhile it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵As long as I am in the world, ^jI am the light of the world.” ⁶Having said these things, ^khe spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. ^lThen he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud ⁷and said to him, “Go, wash in ^mthe pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and ⁿcame back seeing.

⁸The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, ^o“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” ¹⁰So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” ¹¹He answered, ^p“The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” ¹²They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

¹³They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. ^14qNow it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ^15rSo the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not ^sfrom God, ^tfor he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, ^u“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And ^vthere was a division among them. ¹⁷So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, ^w“He is a prophet.”

^18xThe Jews¹ did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight ¹⁹and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” ²⁰His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. ²¹But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” ²²(His parents said these things ^ybecause they feared the Jews, for ^zthe Jews had already agreed that if anyone should ^aconfess Jesus² to be Christ, ^bhe was to be put out of the synagogue. ²³Therefore his parents said, ^c“He is of age; ask him.”)

²⁴So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, ^d“Give glory to God. We know that ^ethis man is a sinner.” ²⁵He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I ^fwas blind, now I see.” ²⁶They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ²⁷He answered them, ^g“I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” ²⁸And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but ^hwe are disciples of Moses. ²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, ⁱwe do not know where he comes from.” ³⁰The man answered, “Why, this is ^jan amazing thing! ^kYou do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. ³¹We know that ^lGod does not listen to sinners, but ^mif anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. ³²Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. ³³ⁿIf this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” ³⁴They answered him, ^o“You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they ^pcast him out.

³⁵Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in ^qthe Son of Man?”^{3 36}He answered, ^r“And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” ³⁷Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and ^sit is he who is speaking to you.” ³⁸He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. ³⁹Jesus said, ^t“For judgment I came into this world, ^uthat those who do not see may see, and ^vthose who see may become blind.” ⁴⁰Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, ^w“Are we also blind?” ⁴¹Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, ^xyou would have no guilt;⁴ but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

I Am the Good Shepherd

10“Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. ²But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. ³To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out. ⁴When he has brought out all his own, he goes before them, and the sheep follow him, for they know his voice. ^5yA stranger they will not follow, but they will flee from him, for they do not know the voice of strangers.” ⁶This figure of speech Jesus ^zused with them, but they ^adid not understand what he was saying to them.

⁷So Jesus again said to them, “Truly, truly, I say to you, ^bI am the door of the sheep. ⁸All who came before me are thieves and robbers, but the sheep did not listen to them. ⁹I am the door. If anyone enters by me, ^che will be saved and will go in and out and ^dfind pasture. ¹⁰The thief comes only to steal and ^ekill and destroy. I came that they may have life and have it abundantly. ^11fI am the good shepherd. The good shepherd ^glays down his life for the sheep. ¹²He who is ^ha hired hand and not a shepherd, who does not own the sheep, sees the wolf coming and ⁱleaves the sheep and flees, and the wolf snatches them and ^jscatters them. ¹³He flees because ^khe is a hired hand and ^lcares nothing for the sheep. ^14mI am the good shepherd. ⁿI know my own and ^omy own know me, ^15pjust as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and ^qI lay down my life for the sheep. ¹⁶And ^rI have other sheep that are not of this fold. ^sI must bring them also, and ^tthey will listen to my voice. So there will be ^uone flock, ^vone shepherd. ^17wFor this reason the Father loves me, ^xbecause ^yI lay down my life that I may take it up again. ^18zNo one takes it from me, but ^yI lay it down ^aof my own accord. I have authority to lay it down, and ^bI have authority to take it up again. ^cThis charge I have received from my Father.”

^19dThere was again a division among the Jews because of these words. ²⁰Many of them said, ^e“He has a demon, and ^fis insane; why listen to him?” ²¹Others said, “These are not the words of one who is oppressed by a demon. ^gCan a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

I and the Father Are One

²²At that time the Feast of Dedication took place at Jerusalem. It was winter, ²³and Jesus was walking in the temple, ^hin the colonnade of Solomon. ²⁴So the Jews gathered around him and said to him, “How long will you keep us in suspense? If you are ⁱthe Christ, ^jtell us plainly.” ²⁵Jesus answered them, “I told you, and you do not believe. ^kThe works that I do ^lin my Father’s name bear witness about me, ²⁶but ^myou do not believe because you are not among my sheep. ²⁷ⁿMy sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. ^28oI give them eternal life, and ^pthey will never perish, and ^qno one will snatch them out of my hand. ²⁹My Father, ^rwho has given them to me,^{1 s}is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of ^tthe Father’s hand. ^30uI and the Father are one.”

^31vThe Jews picked up stones again to stone him. ³²Jesus answered them, “I have shown you many good works from the Father; for which of them are you going to stone me?” ³³The Jews answered him, “It is not for a good work that we are going to stone you but ^wfor blasphemy, because you, being a man, ^xmake yourself God.” ³⁴Jesus answered them, “Is it not written in ^yyour Law, ^z‘I said, you are gods’? ³⁵If he called them gods to whom the word of God came—and Scripture cannot be ^abroken— ³⁶do you say of him whom ^bthe Father consecrated and ^csent into the world, ‘You are blaspheming,’ because ^dI said, ‘I am the Son of God’? ^37eIf I am not doing the works of my Father, then do not believe me; ³⁸but if I do them, ^feven though you do not believe me, believe the works, that you may know and understand that ^gthe Father is in me and I am in the Father.” ^39hAgain they sought to arrest him, but he escaped from their hands.

⁴⁰He went away again across the Jordan to the place ⁱwhere John had been baptizing at first, and there he remained. ⁴¹And many came to him. And they said, “John did no sign, but ^jeverything that John said about this man was true.” ⁴²And ^kmany believed in him there.