John 9:1–23

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.”