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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1And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. 2And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind? 3Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5When 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 anointed his eyes with the clay, 7and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing. 8The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him aforetime, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? 9Others said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he. 10They said therefore unto him, How then were thine eyes opened? 11He answered, The man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to Siloam, and wash: so I went away and washed, and I received sight. 12And they said unto him, Where is he? He saith, I know not.
13They bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. 14Now it was the sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. 15Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. And he said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I see. 16Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keepeth not the sabbath. But others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them. 17They say therefore unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, in that he opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet. 18The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight, 19and asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? 20His parents answered and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: 21but how he now seeth, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not: ask him; he is of age; he shall speak for himself. 22These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. 23Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. 24So they called a second time the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner. 25He therefore answered, Whether he is a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. 26They said therefore unto him, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? 27He answered them, I told you even now, and ye did not hear; wherefore would ye hear it again? would ye also become his disciples? 28And they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are disciples of Moses. 29We know that God hath spoken unto Moses: but as for this man, we know not whence he is. 30The man answered and said unto them, Why, herein is the marvel, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he opened mine eyes. 31We know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he heareth. 32Since the world began it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33If this man were not from 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.
35Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, he said, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 36He answered and said, And who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him? 37Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that speaketh with thee. 38And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. 39And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind. 40Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind? 41Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth.
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