John 9
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The Sixth Sign: Healing a Man Born Blind
1As he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi,#Jn 11:8 who sinned, this man#Ezk 18:20 or his parents,#Ex 20:5; Jb 21:19 that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works#Jn 5:36; 6:28–29; Rm 14:20; Heb 3:9; Rv 15:3 might be displayed in him. 4We#9:4 Other mss read I must do the works#Jn 5:17; 2Jn 8 of him who sent me#9:4 Other mss read us while it is day.#Jn 11:9; 12:35; Rm 13:12 Night is coming when no one can work. 5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”#Mt 5:14; Jn 8:12; 12:46
6After he said these things he spit on the ground, made some mud#Gn 2:7 from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes. 7“Go,” he told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam”#Lk 13:4; Jn 9:11 (which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.#Is 35:5
8His neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit begging?” 9Some said, “He’s the one.” Others were saying, “No, but he looks like him.”
He kept saying, “I’m the one.”
10So they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”
11He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam#Jn 9:7 and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.”#Ac 9:12
12“Where is he?” they asked.
“I don’t know,” he said.
The Healed Man’s Testimony
13They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.#Mk 7:3 14The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.#Mk 2:23 15Then the Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight.
“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”
16Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God,#Jn 7:29 because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man#Mt 26:45; Lk 24:7; Jn 9:24; Rm 5:19 perform such signs?” And there was a division#Jn 7:43; 10:19; 1Co 1:10 among them.
17Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?”
“He’s a prophet,”#Jn 6:14 he said.
18The Jews did not believe this about him — that he was blind and received sight — until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.
19They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
20“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered. 21“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.” 22His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah,#Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 he would be banned from the synagogue. 23This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”
24So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory#Jn 17:24 to God.#Jos 7:19; 1Sm 6:5; Is 42:12; Jr 13:16; Lk 2:14; Rm 4:20 We know that this man is a sinner.”
25He answered, “Whether or not he’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”
26Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27“I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”
28They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’s#Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 disciples. 29We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man — we don’t know where he’s from.”#Jn 7:27–28; 8:14
30“This is an amazing thing!” the man told them. “You don’t know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners,#Jb 27:9; Ps 66:18; Pr 28:9; Is 1:15; 1Jn 3:21 but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will,#Eph 1:9 he listens to him.#Ps 34:15,16; 145:19; Pr 15:20; Jms 5:16–18; 1Jn 5:14–15 32Throughout history#9:32 Lit From the age no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.#Jn 15:24 33If this man were not from God, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.”#Jn 8:28
34“You were born entirely in sin,”#Ps 51:5 they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.#Is 66:5
Spiritual Blindness
35Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, and when he found him, he asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” #9:35 Other mss read the Son of God#Mk 2:10
36“Who is he, Sir,#Lk 10:1 that I may believe in him?” he asked.
37Jesus answered, “You have seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
38“I believe, Lord!” he said, and he worshiped him.
39Jesus said, “I came into this world#Jn 18:37 for judgment,#Mk 12:40; Jn 5:22–30 in order that those who do not see will see and those who do see will become blind.”#Lk 4:18; Jn 3:19; 12:47–50
40Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and asked him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”
41 “If you were blind,” Jesus told them, “you wouldn’t have sin.#Jn 15:22,24; 1Jn 1:8; 3:5 But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.
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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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