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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1 And Jesus, while passing by, saw a man blind from birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?"
3 Jesus responded: "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God would be made manifest in him.
4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no one is able to work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
6 When he had said these things, he spat on the ground, and he made clay from the spittle, and he smeared the clay over his eyes.
7 And he said to him: "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated as: one who has been sent). Therefore, he went away and washed, and he returned, seeing.
8 And so the bystanders and those who had seen him before, when he was a beggar, said, "Is this not the one who was sitting and begging?" Some said, "This is he."
9 But others said, "Certainly not, but he is similar to him." Yet truly, he himself said, "I am he."
10 Therefore, they said to him, "How were your eyes opened?"
11 He responded: "That man who is called Jesus made clay, and he anointed my eyes and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.' And I went, and I washed, and I see."
12 And they said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do not know."
13 They brought the one who had been blind to the Pharisees.
14 Now it was the Sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
15 Therefore, again the Pharisees questioned him as to how he had seen. And he said to them, "He placed clay over my eyes, and I washed, and I see."
16 And so certain Pharisees said: "This man, who does not keep the Sabbath, is not from God." But others said, "How could a sinful man accomplish these signs?" And there was a schism among them.
17 Therefore, they spoke again to the blind man, "What do you say about him who opened your eyes?" Then he said, "He is a Prophet."
18 Therefore, the Jews did not believe, about him, that he had been blind and had seen, until they called the parents of him who had seen.
19 And they questioned them, saying: "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how is it that he now sees?"
20 His parents responded to them and said: "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
21 But how it is that he now sees, we do not know. And who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough. Let him speak for himself."
22 His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already conspired, so that if anyone were to confess him to be the Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.
23 It was for this reason that his parents said: "He is old enough. Ask him."
24 Therefore, they again called the man who had been blind, and they said to him: "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."
25 And so he said to them: "If he is a sinner, I do not know it. One thing I do know, that although I was blind, now I see."
26 Then they said to him: "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
27 He answered them: "I have already told you, and you heard it. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?"
28 Therefore, they cursed him and said: "You be his disciple. But we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God spoke to Moses. But this man, we do not know where he is from."
30 The man responded and said to them: "Now in this is a wonder: that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.
31 And we know that God does not hear sinners. But if anyone is a worshipper of God and does his will, then he heeds him.
32 From ancient times, it has not been heard that anyone has opened the eyes of someone born blind.
33 Unless this man were of God, he would not be able to do any such thing."
34 They responded and said to him, "You were born entirely in sins, and you would teach us?" And they cast him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
36 He responded and said, "Who is he, Lord, so that I may believe in him?"
37 And Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you."
38 And he said, "I believe, Lord." And falling prostrate, he worshipped him.
39 And Jesus said, "I came into this world in judgment, so that those who do not see, may see; and so that those who see, may become blind."
40 And certain Pharisees, who were with him, heard this, and they said to him, "Are we also blind?"
41 Jesus said to them: "If you were blind, you would not have sin. Yet now you say, 'We see.' So your sin persists."
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