John 9

¹And as he was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. ²His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned—this man or his parents—that he should be born blind?"

³Jesus answered, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents. Rather, this happened so that the works of God might be made visible in him. ⁴We must work the works 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."

⁶Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud from the saliva, and he spread the mud on his eyes. ⁷Then he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off and washed, and he came back seeing.

⁸Then the neighbors and those who had previously observed him begging were saying, "Isn't this the one who used to sit and beg?" ⁹Some were saying, "This is the man." Others were saying, "No, but he looks like him." The man himself kept saying, "I am the one."

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

¹¹He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud and spread it on my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went, and when I had washed, I received my sight."

¹²They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I don't know."

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

¹⁶Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, "This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.

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

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

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, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him—he is of age. He will speak for himself." ²²His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Judean authorities, for the Judean authorities had already agreed that if anyone should acknowledge him as the Messiah, that person would be expelled from the synagogue. ²³This is why his parents said, "He is of age; question him."

²⁴So they summoned the man a second time—the one 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: that 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 have already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples too, do you?"

²⁸Then they reviled him and said, "You are a disciple of that man, but we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he is from."

³⁰The man answered and said to them, "Well, here is something remarkable: that you do not know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes. ³¹We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to that person. ³²Never in all history has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. ³³If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

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

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

³⁶He answered, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"

³⁷Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and he is the one speaking with you."

³⁸He said, "I believe, Lord," and he worshipped him.

³⁹And Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world, 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, "Surely we are not blind too, are we?"

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