John 9

Christ Heals the Blind Man

9Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. ²And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, ^awho sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

³Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, ^bbut that the works of God should be revealed in him. ^4cI ¹must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is ^dday; the night is coming when no one can work. ⁵As long as I am in the world, ^eI am the light of the world.”

⁶When He had said these things, ^fHe spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. ⁷And He said to him, “Go, wash ^gin the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So ^hhe went and washed, and came back seeing.

⁸Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was ²blind said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?”

⁹Some said, “This is he.” Others said, ³“He is like him.”

He said, “I am he.”

¹⁰Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

¹¹He answered and said, ⁱ“A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to ⁴the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received sight.”

¹²Then they said to him, “Where is He?”

He said, “I do not know.”

¹³They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. ¹⁵Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

¹⁶Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This Man is not from God, because He does not ⁵keep the Sabbath.”

Others said, ^j“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And ^kthere was a division among them.

¹⁷They said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him because He opened your eyes?”

He said, ^l“He is a prophet.”

¹⁸But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight. ¹⁹And they asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

²⁰His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ²¹but by what means he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.” ²²His parents said these things because ^mthey feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he ⁿwould be put out of the synagogue. ²³Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

²⁴So they again called the man who was blind, and said to him, ^o“Give God the glory! ^pWe know that this Man is a sinner.”

²⁵He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

²⁶Then they said to him again, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”

²⁷He answered them, “I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”

²⁸Then they reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples. ²⁹We know that God ^qspoke to ^rMoses; as for this fellow, ^swe do not know where He is from.”

³⁰The man answered and said to them, ^t“Why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know where He is from; yet He has opened my eyes! ³¹Now we know that ^uGod does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him. ³²Since the world began it has been unheard of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind. ^33vIf this Man were not from God, He could do nothing.”

³⁴They answered and said to him, ^w“You were completely born in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they ⁶cast him out.

³⁵Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had ^xfound him, He said to him, “Do you ^ybelieve in ^zthe Son of ⁷God?”

³⁶He answered and said, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?”

³⁷And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and ^ait is He who is talking with you.”

³⁸Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he ^bworshiped Him.

³⁹And Jesus said, ^c“For judgment I have come into this world, ^dthat those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”

⁴⁰Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, ^eand said to Him, “Are we blind also?”

⁴¹Jesus said to them, ^f“If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.