John 9:1–12

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

9As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been born blind. ²His disciples asked him, “Teacher, whose sin caused him to be born blind? Was it his own or his parents’ sin?”

³Jesus answered, “His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents’ sins. He is blind so that God’s power might be seen at work in him. ⁴As long as it is day, we must keep on doing the work of him who sent me; night is coming when no one can work. ^5*While I am in the world, I am the light for the world.”

⁶After he said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the spittle; he rubbed the mud on the man’s eyes ⁷and said, “Go and wash your face in the Pool of Siloam.” (This name means “Sent”.) So the man went, washed his face, and came back seeing.

⁸His neighbours, then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹Some said, “He is the one,” but others said, “No he isn’t; he just looks like him.” So the man himself said, “I am the man.”

¹⁰“How is it that you can now see?” they asked him.

¹¹He answered, “The man called Jesus made some mud, rubbed it on my eyes, and told me to go to Siloam and wash my face. So I went, and as soon as I washed, I could see.”

¹²“Where is he?” they asked.

“I don’t know,” he answered.