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1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents,
that he was born blind?”
3 Jesus answered, “Neither did this man sin, nor
his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. 4 I must
work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when
no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 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, 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of
Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. 8 The
neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t
this he who sat and begged?” 9 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still
others were saying, “He looks like him.”
He said, “I am he.” 10 They therefore were asking
him, “How were your eyes opened?”
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.”
12 Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
He said, “I don’t know.”
13 They brought him who had been blind to the
Pharisees. 14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his
eyes. 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.”
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. 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.”
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, 19 and asked them, “Is this
your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
20 His parents answered them, “We know that this
is our son, and that he was born blind; 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.” 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. 23 Therefore his parents
said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
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.”
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.”
26 They said to him again, “What did he do to
you? How did he open your eyes?”
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?”
28 They insulted him and said, “You are his
disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to
Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
30 The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t
know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God
doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God, and does his
will, he listens to him. 32 Since the world began it has never been heard
of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. 33 If this man were
not from God, he could do nothing.”
34 They answered him, “You were altogether born
in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and
finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
36 He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may
believe in him?”
37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him,
and it is he who speaks with you.”
38 He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped
him.
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.”
40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard
these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you
would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
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