John 9

1verseAs he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

2verseHis disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3verseJesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.

4verseI must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

5verseWhile I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6verseWhen he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,

7verseand said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

8verseTherefore the neighbors and those who saw that he was blind before said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

9verseOthers were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”

10verseThey therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

11verseHe 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.”

12verseThen they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”

13verseThey brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.

14verseIt was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

15verseAgain 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.”

16verseSome 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?” So there was division among them.

17verseTherefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

18verseThe Jews therefore didn’t 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,

19verseand asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

20verseHis parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

21versebut 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.”

22verseHis 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.

23verseTherefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”

24verseSo 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.”

25verseHe therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

26verseThey said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

27verseHe 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?”

28verseThey insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

29verseWe know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

30verseThe man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

31verseWe know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him.

32verseSince the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.

33verseIf this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

34verseThey answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

35verseJesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

36verseHe answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”

37verseJesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”

38verseHe said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.

39verseJesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

40verseThose of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

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