John 9

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

1As Jesus walked along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “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 it happened so that the works of God might be revealed in him. 41I 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 spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he 2rubbed the mud on the blind man's eyes 7and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went and washed, and came away seeing. 8Then his neighbors and those who had previously seen that he was 3blind were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9Others were saying, “It is he.” 4Still others were saying, “He is like him.” But he kept saying, “I am he.” 10So they said to him, “5How were yoʋr eyes opened?” 11He answered, “6A man named Jesus made mud, rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to 7the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” 12They said to him, “Where is this man?” He said, “I do not know.”

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

13So they brought the man who was once blind to the Pharisees. 14(Now it was a Sabbath 8when Jesus made the mud and opened the man's eyes.) 15The Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight, and he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I see.” 16Then some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And a division arose among them. 17So they said to the blind man again, “What do yoʋ say about him, since he opened yoʋr eyes?” The man said, “He is a prophet.”

18Now the Jews did not believe that the man had been blind and had received his sight until they called in his parents. 19They asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” 20His parents answered 9them, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. 10He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.” 22(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess that Jesus was the Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 23That is why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”)

24So for a second time they called in 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 or not, I do not know; one thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see.” 2611Again they said to him, “What did he do to yoʋ? How did he open yoʋr eyes?” 27He answered them, “I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” 28Then they reviled him and said, “Yoʋ are a disciple of that man, 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 is from.” 30The man answered them, “Why, this is an amazing thing, that you do not know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes! 31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who is devout and does his will. 32Never before 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, “Yoʋ were born entirely in sin, and yet yoʋ are trying to teach us?” And they threw him out.

Spiritual Blindness

35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said 12to him, “Do yoʋ believe in the Son of 13God?” 36He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?” 37Jesus said to him, “Yoʋ have seen him, and the one speaking with yoʋ is he.” 38The man said, “I believe, Lord.” And he worshiped him. 39Then Jesus said, “For judgment I have come 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, “We are not also blind, are we?” 41Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin, but now 14you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.