John 9:1–23

Healing the Man Born Blind

¹As He passed by, He saw a man blind from birth.

²And His disciples asked Him, “^aRabbi, who sinned, ^bthis man or his ^cparents, that he would be born blind?”

³Jesus answered, “It was neither that this man sinned, nor his parents; but it was so ^athat the works of God might be displayed in him.

⁴“We must work the works of Him who sent Me ^aas long as it is day; night is coming when no one can work.

⁵“While I am in the world, I am ^athe Light of the world.”

⁶When He had said this, He ^aspat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,

⁷and said to him, “Go, wash in ^athe pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went away and ^bwashed, and ^ccame back seeing.

⁸Therefore the neighbors, and those who previously saw him as a beggar, were saying, “Is not this the one who used to ^asit and beg?”

⁹Others were saying, “This is he,” still others were saying, “No, but he is like him.” ¹He kept saying, “I am the one.”

¹⁰So they were saying to him, “How then were your eyes opened?”

¹¹He answered, “The man who is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to ^aSiloam and wash’; so I went away and washed, and I received sight.”

¹²They said to him, “Where is He?” He said, “I do not know.”

Controversy over the Man

¹³They brought to the Pharisees the man who was formerly blind.

^14aNow it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

^15aThen the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received his sight. And he said to them, “He applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

¹⁶Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He ^adoes not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such ^1bsigns?” And ^cthere was a division among them.

¹⁷So they said to the blind man ^aagain, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a ^bprophet.”

^18aThe Jews then did not believe it of him, that he had been blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the very one who had received his sight,

¹⁹and questioned them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

²⁰His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

²¹but how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself.”

²²His parents said this because they ^awere afraid of the Jews; for the Jews ^bhad already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be ¹Christ, ^che was to be put out of the synagogue.

²³For this reason his parents said, “^aHe is of age; ask him.”