John 9:1–23

The Sixth Sign: Healing a Man Born Blind

9As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth. ²His disciples questioned Him: “Rabbi, ^wwho sinned, this man ^xor his parents, ^ythat he was born blind?”

³“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works ^zmight be displayed in him. ⁴We ^amust do the works ^bof Him who sent Me ^cwhile it is day. ^dNight is coming when no one can work. ⁵As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ^e

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

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

He kept saying, “I’m the one!”

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

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

¹²“Where is He?” they asked.

“I don’t know,” he said.

The Healed Man’s Testimony

¹³They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees. ^k14The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath. ^l15So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight.

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

¹⁶Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, ^mfor He doesn’t keep the Sabbath!” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man ⁿperform such signs?” And there was a division ^oamong them.

¹⁷Again they asked the blind man, ^p“What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?”

“He’s a prophet,” ^qhe said.

¹⁸The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

¹⁹They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

²⁰“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered. ²¹“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.” ²²His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed Him as Messiah, ^rhe would be banned from the synagogue. ²³This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”