John 9

¹And as he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth.

²And his disciples asked him, saying: Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?

³Jesus answered: Neither this man sinned, nor his parents, but so that the works of God might be displayed in him.

⁴We must work the works of the one who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one is able to work.

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

⁶After saying these things, he spat on the ground and made clay from the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes,

⁷And he said to him: Go, wash yourself in the pool of Siloam (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

⁸So the neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying: Is this not the one who used to sit and beg?

⁹Some were saying: He is the one. Others were saying: No, but he looks like him. The man himself kept saying: I am he.

¹⁰So they were saying to him: How then were your eyes opened?

¹¹He answered and said: The man called Jesus made clay and smeared my eyes and said to me: Go to Siloam and wash yourself. So I went and washed and I received sight.

¹²And they said to him: Where is he? He says: I do not know.

¹³They brought him to the Pharisees -- the one who had been blind.

¹⁴Now it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

¹⁵So the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received sight. And he said to them: He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.

¹⁶So some of the Pharisees were saying: This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath. But others were saying: How can a sinful man do such signs? And there was a division among them.

¹⁷So they said to the blind man again: What do you yourself say about him, since he opened your eyes? And he said: He is a prophet.

¹⁸The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they called the parents of the one who had received sight.

¹⁹And they asked them, saying: Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he see now?

²⁰His parents therefore answered and said: We know that this is our son and that he was born blind;

²¹But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him; he is of age; he will speak for himself.

²²His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him to be Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.

²³For this reason his parents said: He is of age; question him.

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

²⁵He therefore answered and said: Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.

²⁶So they said to him again: What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?

²⁷He answered them: I told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Could it be that you also want to become his disciples?

²⁸And they reviled him and said: You are a disciple of that man, but we are disciples of Moses.

²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses; but this man, we do not know from where he is.

³⁰The man answered and said to them, 'In this very thing is the marvel — that you yourselves do not know from where he is, and yet he opened my eyes.'

³¹Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he hears him.

³²From the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of one born blind.

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

³⁴They answered and said to him, 'In sins you were born — all of you! — and are you teaching us?' And they threw him out.

³⁵Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and having found him, he said to him, 'Do you believe in the Son of Man?'

³⁶He answered and said, 'And who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?'

³⁷Jesus said to him, 'You have seen him — it is the one who is speaking with you.'

³⁸And he said, 'I believe, Lord!' 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 these things and said to him, 'We are not blind too, are we?'

⁴¹Jesus said to them, 'If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now because you say, "We see," your sin remains.'