# John 9

> Lumin Translation

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Lumin’s own translation, drafted with AI from the Hebrew, Aramaic, and Greek, checked verse by verse against them, and approved by Lumin. Brackets mark verses not found in the earliest manuscripts.

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1. As he passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
2. His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3. Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that the works of God might be revealed in him.
4. We must do the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work.
5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6. After saying this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud on the man’s eyes.
7. Then 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.
8. The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”
9. Some said, “This is the one.” Others said, “No, but he looks like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.”
10. So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”
11. He 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.”
12. They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
13. They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.
14. Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.
15. So 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.”
16. Some 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.
17. So 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.”
18. The 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
19. and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
20. His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
21. But 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.”
22. His 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.
23. That is why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
24. So 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.”
25. He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.”
26. They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27. He 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?”
28. Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are that man’s disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
29. We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
30. The man answered them, “Why, this is amazing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
31. We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.
32. Never since the world began has anyone heard of someone opening the eyes of a man born blind.
33. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
34. They answered him, “You were born entirely in sin, and you are teaching us?” And they threw him out.
35. Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36. He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
37. Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you.”
38. He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
39. Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”
40. Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind too, are we?”
41. Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”

## Nearby chapters

[John 8](https://www.lumin.faith/read/john/8.md)
[John 10](https://www.lumin.faith/read/john/10.md)

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