John 9
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Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
1As Jesus went along, he saw a man who was blind. He had been blind since he was born. 2Jesus’ disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned? Was this man born blind because he sinned? Or did his parents sin?”
3“It isn’t because this man sinned,” said Jesus. “It isn’t because his parents sinned. He was born blind so that God’s power could be shown by what’s going to happen. 4While it is still day, we must do the works of the one who sent me. Night is coming. Then no one can work. 5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6After he said this, he spit on the ground. He made some mud with the spit. Then he put the mud on the man’s eyes. 7“Go,” he told him. “Wash in the Pool of Siloam.” Siloam means Sent. So the man went and washed. And he came home able to see.
8His neighbors and people who had seen him earlier begging asked questions. “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” they asked. 9Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No. He only looks like him.”
But the man who had been blind kept saying, “I am the man.”
10“Then how were your eyes opened?” they asked.
11He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed. Then I could see.”
12“Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
The Pharisees Want to Know How the Blind Man Was Healed
13They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14The day Jesus made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath day. 15So the Pharisees also asked him how he was able to see. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied. “Then I washed. And now I can see.”
16Some of the Pharisees said, “Jesus has not come from God. He does not keep the Sabbath day.”
But others asked, “How can a sinner do such signs?” So the Pharisees did not agree with one another.
17Then they turned again to the blind man. “What do you have to say about him?” they asked. “It was your eyes he opened.”
The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
18They still did not believe that the man had been blind and now could see. So they sent for his parents. 19“Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”
20“We know he is our son,” the parents answered. “And we know he was born blind. 21But we don’t know how he can now see. And we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is an adult. He can speak for himself.” 22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. The leaders had already made this decision about Jesus. Anyone who said Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23That was why the man’s parents said, “He is an adult. Ask him.”
24Again the Pharisees called the man who had been blind to come to them. “Give glory to God by telling the truth!” they said. “We know that the man who healed you is a sinner.”
25He replied, “I don’t know if he is a sinner or not. I do know one thing. I was blind, but now I can see!”
26Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27He answered, “I have already told you. But you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?”
28Then they began to attack him with their words. “You are this fellow’s disciple!” they said. “We are disciples of Moses! 29We know that God spoke to Moses. But we don’t even know where this fellow comes from.”
30The man answered, “That is really surprising! You don’t know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does what he wants them to do. 32Nobody has ever heard of anyone opening the eyes of a person born blind. 33If this man had not come from God, he could do nothing.”
34Then the Pharisees replied, “When you were born, you were already deep in sin. How dare you talk like that to us!” And they threw him out of the synagogue.
People Who Can’t See the Truth
35Jesus heard that the Pharisees had thrown the man out of the synagogue. When Jesus found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36“Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me, so I can believe in him.”
37Jesus said, “You have now seen him. In fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
38Then the man said, “Lord, I believe.” And he worshiped him.
39Jesus said, “I have come into this world to judge it. I have come so that people who are blind will see. I have come so that people who can see will become blind.”
40Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this. They asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
41Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, you remain guilty.
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John 9
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John 9
1¶ And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth.
2And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?
3Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
4It is expedient that I do the works of him that sent me while it is day; the night comes, when no one can work.
5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay
7and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). Then he went and washed and came back seeing.
8¶ The neighbours, therefore, and those who before had seen him that he was blind said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
9Some said, This is he; others said, He is like him; but he said, I am he.
10Then they said unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
11He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and I went and washed, and I received sight.
12Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
13¶ They brought to the Pharisees him that beforehand had been blind.
14And it was the sabbath day when Jesus had made the clay and had opened his eyes.
15Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed and do see.
16Therefore some of the Pharisees said, This man is not of God because he does not keep the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them.
17They said unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that has opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
18But the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received his sight until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.
19And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then does he now see?
20His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son and that he was born blind;
21but by what means he now sees, we know not; or who has opened his eyes, we know not; he is of age, ask him; he shall speak for himself.
22These words spoke his parents because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone did confess that he was the Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
23Therefore his parents said, He is of age, ask him.
24Then they called again the man that had been blind and said unto him, Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.
25He answered and said, Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know; one thing I know, that having been blind, now I see.
26Then said they to him again, What did he do to thee? How did he open thine eyes?
27He answered them, I have told you already, and ye have heard; what more would ye hear? Do ye also desire to be his disciples?
28Then they reviled him and said, Be thou his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
29We know that God spoke unto Moses; as for this fellow, we do not know where he is from.
30The man answered and said unto them, Indeed this is a marvellous thing that ye do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.
31Now we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone should fear God and do his will, him he will hear.
32Since the world began it has not been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
33If this man were not of God, he could do nothing.
34They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
35¶ Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe in the Son of God?
36He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe in him?
37And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast seen him, and it is he that talks with thee.
38And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
39¶ And Jesus said, For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see might see and that those who see might be blinded.
40And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words and said unto him, Are we blind also?
41Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin; but now because ye say, We see, therefore your sin abides.
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