John 9:1–12

A Man Born Blind Is Given Sight

9And as he^* went away, he saw a man blind from birth. ²And his disciples asked him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?” ³Jesus replied, “Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but it happened^* so that the works of God could be revealed in him. ⁴It is necessary for us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work! ⁵While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ⁶When he^* had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes. ⁷And he said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated “sent”). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

⁸Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say,^* “Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?” ⁹Others were saying, “It is this man”; others were saying, “No, but he is like him.” That one was saying, “I am he!” ¹⁰So they began to say^* to him, “How^a were your eyes opened?” ¹¹He replied, “The man who is called Jesus made clay and smeared it^* on my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash!’ So I went, and I washed, and^* I received sight.” ¹²And they said to him, “Where is that man?” He said, “I do not know.”