9:1 As he
passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 9:2 His
disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that
he was born blind?"
9:3 Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor
his parents;
but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. 9:4 I must work
the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming,
when no one can work. 9:5 While I am in the world, I am the light of
the world." 9:6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made
mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, 9:7
and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam"
(which means "Sent").
So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. 9:8 The neighbors
therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't
this he who sat and begged?" 9:9 Others were saying, "It is he."
Still others were saying, "He looks like him."
He said, "I am he." 9:10 They therefore were asking him, "How
were
your eyes opened?"
9:11 He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes,
and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away
and washed, and I received sight."
9:12 Then they asked him, "Where is he?"
He said, "I don't know."
9:13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. 9:14
It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 9:15
Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight.
He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."
9:16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from
God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." Others said, "How can a
man
who is a sinner do such signs?" There was division among them. 9:17
Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him,
because he opened your eyes?"
He said, "He is a prophet."
9:18 The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he
had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the
parents of him who had received his sight, 9:19 and asked them, "Is
this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"
9:20 His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and
that he was born blind; 9:21 but how he now sees, we don't know; or
who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will
speak for himself." 9:22 His parents said these things because they
feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would
confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 9:23
Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."
9:24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said
to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."
9:25 He therefore answered, "I don't know if he is a sinner. One
thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."
9:26 They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he
open your eyes?"
9:27 He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn't listen.
Why do you want to hear it again? You don't also want to become his
disciples, do you?"
9:28 They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are
disciples of Moses. 9:29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as
for this man, we don't know where he comes from."
9:30 The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he
comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 9:31 We know that God doesn't
listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his
will, he listens to him. 9:32 Since the world began it has never
been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. 9:33
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
9:34 They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do
you teach us?" They threw him out.
9:35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he
said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
9:36 He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"
9:37 Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him,
and it is he who
speaks with you."
9:38 He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.
9:39 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment,
that those
who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind."
9:40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things,
and said to him, "Are we also blind?"
9:41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you
would have no
sin; but now you say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remains.
