John 9

¹As he was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. ²His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned—this man or his parents—that resulted in him being born blind?"

³"It was not that this man sinned, or his parents," Jesus answered. "Instead, this happened so that the works of God might be revealed in him. ⁴We must work the works of the one who sent me while it is still day; night is coming when no one is able to work. ⁵As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

⁶After saying this, he spat on the ground and made clay from the saliva. He spread the clay on the man’s eyes ⁷and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So the man went away and washed, and he came back seeing.

⁸Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar began to ask, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?" ⁹Some were saying, "It is he." Others were saying, "No, but he looks like him." But the man himself kept saying, "It is I."

¹⁰So they asked him, "How then were your eyes opened?"

¹¹He answered, "The man called Jesus made clay, anointed my eyes, and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and I received my sight."

¹²They asked him, "Where is that man?""I do not know," he said.

¹³They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴Now it was a Sabbath on the day Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. ¹⁵So the Pharisees also began asking him how he had received his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," the man told them, "and I washed, and now I see."

¹⁶Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

¹⁷So they spoke to the blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he opened?""He is a prophet," he said.

¹⁸The Judean authorities did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they summoned the parents of the man who could now see. ¹⁹They questioned them, saying, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he see now?"

²⁰His parents answered, "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 were afraid of the Judean authorities; for the Judeans had already agreed that if anyone should confess him to be the Christos, they would be expelled from the synagogue community. ²³This is why his parents said, "He is of age; question him."

²⁴So for a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and said to him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner."

²⁵He answered, "Whether he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I do know: though I was blind, now I see."

²⁶They said to him, "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? You don't want to become his disciples too, do you?"

²⁸They insulted him and said, "You are that man’s disciple, but we are disciples of Moses! ²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this fellow, we do not know where he comes from."

³⁰The man answered them, "Now this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. ³¹We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone is God-fearing and does his will, God listens to that person. ³²Since the beginning of time, it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. ³³If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

³⁴They answered him, "You were born entirely in sins, and you are trying to teach us?" And they threw him out.

³⁵Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, "Do you trust in the Son of Man?"

³⁶The man answered, "And who is he, sir, so that I may trust in him?"

³⁷Jesus said to him, "You have seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you right now."

³⁸He said, "I trust, Lord," and he prostrated himself before him.

³⁹Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind."

⁴⁰Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and said to him, "We aren't blind too, are we?"

⁴¹Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now that you say, 'We see,' your sin remains."