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Jesus was passing by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This happened so that the works of God might be revealed in him. 4 We must do the work 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 When He had said this, He spat on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and spread the mud on the blind man’s eyes. 7 Then He told him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So the man left and washed, and came back seeing.
8 The neighbours and those who had formerly seen him as a beggar asked, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said, “He’s the one,” while others were saying, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he kept saying, “I am the man.”
10 So they asked, “Then how were your eyes opened?”
11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and put it on my eyes. Then He told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash’. So I went and washed, and I received my sight.”
12 “Where is He?” they asked.
“I don’t know,” he said.
13 They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees. 14 Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes. 15 So again the Pharisees asked him how he had received his sight.
“He put mud on my eyes,” the man told them. “Then I washed, and now I can see.”
16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath!”
But others asked, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” So they were divided.
17 Again they asked the man who had been blind, “What have you to say about Him? It was your eyes He opened.”
“He is a prophet,” the man answered.
18 The Jews still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight. So they sent for the parents of the man who had received his sight.
19 “Is this your son,” they asked. “Is he 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,” the parents answered. 21 “But how he can now see we don’t know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age; he can speak for himself.” 22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed that Jesus was the Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
24 So a second time they summoned 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 or not I don’t know. One thing I do know though: I was blind and now I see.”
26 Then they asked him, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”
27 “I have already told you,” he answered, “and you wouldn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”
28 Then they ridiculed 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 don’t even know where He comes from.”
30 The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You don’t know where He comes from, yet He opened my eyes! 31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does His will, God listens to Him. 32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, He could do nothing.”
34 To this they replied, “You were born in utter sin, and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when He had found him, He said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36 “Who is He, Sir, that I may believe in Him?” he asked.
37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen Him, and it is He who is speaking with you.”
38 Then the man said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshipped Him.
39 Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who are blind will see, and those who see will be made blind.”
40 Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard Him say this and asked, “What, we are not blind also, are we?”
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you wouldn’t be guilty of sin. But now that you say, ‘We see’, Your sin remains.”