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 questioned 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 # Other mss read I must do the works # Jn 5:17; 2Jn 8 of Him who sent Me # Other mss read sent 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 formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who sat begging? ” 9Some said, “He’s the one.” “No,” others were saying, “but he looks like him.”
He kept saying, “I’m the one! ”
10Therefore 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 15So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight.
“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”
16Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, # Jn 7:29 for 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, # = the man who had been blind “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 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. # Give glory to God was a solemn charge to tell the truth; Jos 7:19. # 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’ # 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, 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 # 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. # = they banned him from the synagogue; v. 22 # Is 66:5
The Blind Man’s Sight and the Pharisees’ Blindness
35When Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, He found him and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man? ” # 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. # To have sin is an idiom that refers to guilt caused by 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 passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,
2and his disciples asked him, saying, ‘Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?’
3Jesus answered, ‘Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;
4it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: —
5when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.’
6These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,
7‘Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,’ which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;
8the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, ‘Is not this he who is sitting and begging?’
9others said — ‘This is he;’ and others — ‘He is like to him;’ he himself said, — ‘I am [he].’
10They said, therefore, to him, ‘How were thine eyes opened?’
11he answered and said, ‘A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;’
12they said, therefore, to him, ‘Where is that one?’ he saith, ‘I have not known.’
13They bring him to the Pharisees who once [was] blind,
14and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
15Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, ‘Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash — and I see.’
16Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, ‘This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;’ others said, ‘How is a man — a sinful one — able to do such signs?’ and there was a division among them.
17They said to the blind man again, ‘Thou — what dost thou say of him — that he opened thine eyes?’
18and he said — ‘He is a prophet.’ The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight,
19and they asked them, saying, ‘Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?’
20His parents answered them and said, ‘We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
21and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.’
22These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him — Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;
23because of this his parents said — ‘He is of age, ask him.’
24They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, ‘Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;’
25he answered, therefore, and said, ‘If he be a sinner — I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.’
26And they said to him again, ‘What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?’
27He answered them, ‘I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?’
28They reviled him, therefore, and said, ‘Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples;
29we have known that God hath spoken to Moses, but this one — we have not known whence he is.’
30The man answered and said to them, ‘Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!
31and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;
32from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind;
33if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.’
34They answered and said to him, ‘In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!’ and they cast him forth without.
35Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, he said to him, ‘Dost thou believe in the Son of God?’
36he answered and said, ‘Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?’
37And Jesus said to him, ‘Thou hast both seen him, and he who is speaking with thee is he;’
38and he said, ‘I believe, sir,’ and bowed before him.
39And Jesus said, ‘For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.’
40And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, ‘Are we also blind?’
41Jesus said to them, ‘If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say — We see, therefore doth your sin remain.
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