John 9

1As he passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that the works of God might be revealed in him.

4We must do the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work.

5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6After saying this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud on the man’s eyes.

7Then he said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which translated means Sent). So he went and washed, and came back able to see.

8The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

9Some said, “This is the one.” Others said, “No, but he looks like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.”

10So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”

11He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received my sight.”

12They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

13They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

14Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

15So the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I see.”

16Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.

17So they said to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he opened?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

18The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight

19and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

20His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

21But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”

22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.

23That is why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

24So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

25He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.”

26They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

27He answered them, “I have told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become his disciples too, do you?”

28Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are that man’s disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

29We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”

30The man answered them, “Why, this is amazing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.

31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

32Never since the world began has anyone heard of someone opening the eyes of a man born blind.

33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

34They answered him, “You were born entirely in sin, and you are teaching us?” And they threw him out.

35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

36He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”

37Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you.”

38He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.

39Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”

40Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind too, are we?”

41Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”