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, # 9:2 Jn 11:8 who sinned, this man # 9:2 Ezk 18:20 or his parents, # 9:2 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 # 9:3 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 # 9:4 Jn 5:17; 2Jn 8 of him who sent me # 9:4 Other mss read us while it is day. # 9:4 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.” # 9:5 Mt 5:14; Jn 8:12; 12:46
6After he said these things he spit on the ground, made some mud # 9:6 Gn 2:7 from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes. 7“Go,” he told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam” # 9:7 Lk 13:4; Jn 9:11 (which means “Sent”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing. # 9:7 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 # 9:11 Jn 9:7 and wash.’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.” # 9:11 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. # 9:13 Mk 7:3 14The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath. # 9:14 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, # 9:16 Jn 7:29 because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man # 9:16 Mt 26:45; Lk 24:7; Jn 9:24; Rm 5:19 perform such signs? ” And there was a division # 9:16 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,” # 9:17 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, # 9:22 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 # 9:24 Jn 17:24 to God. # 9:24 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 # 9:28 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.” # 9:29 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, # 9:31 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, # 9:31 Eph 1:9 he listens to him. # 9:31 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. # 9:32 Jn 15:24 33If this man were not from God, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.” # 9:33 Jn 8:28
34“You were born entirely in sin,” # 9:34 Ps 51:5 they replied, “and are you trying to teach us? ” Then they threw him out. # 9:34 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,# 9:35 Mk 2:10
36“Who is he, Sir, # 9:36 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 # 9:39 Jn 18:37 for judgment, # 9:39 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.” # 9:39 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. # 9:41 Jn 15:22,24; 1Jn 1:8; 3:5 But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.
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Yochanan 9
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1And passing along, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach saw a man ivver (blind) from birth. 2The talmidim of Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach asked him, Rebbe, who committed averos, this man or the horim (parents) of him, that he was born ivver?#9:2 Ezek 18:20; Ex 20:5; Job 21:19 3In reply, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Neither this man sinned nor the horim of him, but that the pe'ulot of Hashem may be manifested in him. 4It is necessary for us to work the pe'ulot of the One having sent me while it is Yom. Lailah comes when no one is able to work.#9:4 Jer 13:16 5As long as I am in the Olam Hazeh, I am the Ohr HaOlam. 6Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva and he anointed the clay upon the manʼs eyes, 7And said to him, Go wash in the pool of Shiloach!#9:7 2Kgs 5:10 — The name means sent — He went therefore and washed and came seeing.#9:7 Isa 35:5
8Therefore, the shchenim and the ones seeing the man who was formerly a betler, came, saying, Is this not the man who was sitting and begging? 9Some were saying, This is the one! Others were saying, No, but it is a man like him. But the man was saying, I am the one! 10Therefore, the people were saying to him, How, then, were your eyes opened? 11In reply, the man said, The one called Yehoshua took clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, Go to Shiloach#9:11 2Kgs 5:10 and wash. Therefore, having gone, and having washed, I saw! 12And they said to him, Where is that one? The man says to them, I do not have da'as of that.
13The people lead the man to the Perushim…the man who had formerly been ivver (blind). 14Now the time period Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach took the clay and opened his eyes was a Shabbos. 15Then again also the Perushim were asking him how his eyes were opened, and the man said to them, The man placed clay on my eyes and I washed, and I see. 16Therefore some of the Perushim were saying, This man is not from Hashem, because he is Mechallel Shabbos (desecrating Shabbos). But others were saying, How is a man who is a choteh (sinner) able to do such otot? There was a machloket (division of dissension) among them. 17Therefore, they say to the ivver (blind man) again, What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes? And the man said, He is a Navi.
18Therefore, those of Yehudah did not believe that the man had been ivver (blind) until they called the horim of the man whose eyes were opened. 19And they asked the horim, saying, Is this the ben of you, whom you say was born ivver? How, therefore, does he now have sight? 20In reply, therefore, his horim said, We have da'as that this man is the ben of us and that he was born ivver, 21But how he sees now we do not have da'as nor do we have da'as of who opened his eyes. Interrogate him. Heʼs a [Bar Mitzvah] bar da'as (he is of age). He will speak for himself. 22His horim said these things, because they were fearing those of Yehudah, for already those of Yehudah had agreed that if any person made hoda'ah (confession) of him to be the Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach, that person would be put under cherem ban from the shul. 23Therefore, his horim said, He has reached his religious majority and is of age. Interrogate him.
24They called a second time, therefore, the man who had been ivver (blind) and said to him, V'ten lo todah (Give glory to G-d).#9:24 Josh 7:19 We have da'as that this man is a choteh (sinner).#9:24 Ps 68:35; Josh 7:19 25In reply, therefore, he said, If he is a choteh (sinner), of that I don't have da'as. Of one thing I do have da'as, that though I was ivver, now I see. 26They said, therefore, to him, What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? 27The man answered them, I told you already, and you do not listen. Why again do you want to hear? Surely you do not want to become his talmidim also? 28And they reviled him and said, You are a talmid of that man, but we are talmidim of Moshe Rabbeinu.#9:28 Num 12:2,8 29We have da'as that Hashem has spoken to Moshe Rabbeinu, but this man, we do not have da'as from where he comes. 30In reply, the man said to them, Here is a real cheftza! That you do not have da'as from where he comes, and he opened my eyes! 31We have da'as that G-d does not listen to chote'im (sinners), but if anyone has chassidus, is a yore-shomayim and does the ratzon (will) of Him, this one Hashem hears.#9:31 Ps 18:23-32; 34:15,16; 66:18; 145:19-20; 51:5 [7]; Prov 15:8,29; Isa 1:15; 59:1-2 32Never vi-bahlt the Bri'at HaOlam (the Creation of the World) it was heard of that anyone opened the eyes of an ivver (blind man) having been born thus. 33If this man was not from Hashem, he would not be able to do anything. 34They answered and said to him, You were born totally B'AVON (in sin)#9:34 Ps 51:5 [7] and you teach us? And they threw him out.
35Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach heard that they threw him out, and, having found him, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Do you have emunah (faith) in the Bar Enosh?#9:35 Dan 7:13 36In reply, the man said, And who is he, Adoni, that I may have emunah in him? 37And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he. 38And the man said, Ani ma'amin, Adoni. And he fell down prostrate before him. 39And Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, For the sake of Mishpat, I came into the Olam Hazeh, that the ones who are ivrim (blind ones) may see, and the ones seeing may become ivrim. 40Some of the Perushim heard these things, the ones being with him, and they said to him, Surely we are not ivrim, are we? 41Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said to them, If you were ivrim (blind men), you would not have chet, but now vi-bahlt (since) you say, We see, the avon#9:41 Psalm 51 of you remains.
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