John 9
1As he passed by, he saw a man 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 sinned nor his parents, but this happened so that God's works might be revealed in him. 4We must work the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6After saying these things, he spat on the ground, made mud from the spit, and spread the mud on the man's eyes. 7He told him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam”—which is translated “Sent.” So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
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, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he looks like him.” He kept saying, “I am he.” 10They asked him, “How were your eyes opened?” 11He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and received sight.” 12They asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
13They brought the man who had formerly been blind to the Pharisees. 14It was a Sabbath on the day Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15The Pharisees also asked him again how he received sight. He told them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” 16Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And there was a division among them. 17They said to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
18The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and received sight until they called the parents of the man who received sight 19and questioned them: “Is this your son, whom 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 these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him as Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23For this reason his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
24They 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 answered, “Whether he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I 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 told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear again? You do not want to become his disciples too, do you?” 28They reviled him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are Moses' disciples. 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, “That is the astonishing thing: you do not know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes. 31We know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone reveres God and does his will, he hears him. 32Never has it been heard that someone opened the eyes of a person born blind. 33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” 34They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and you teach us?” And they threw him out.
35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. Finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 36He answered, “And who is he, sir, so that I may believe in him?” 37Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and he is the one speaking with you.” 38He said, “I believe, Lord,” and 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 you say, ‘We see.’ Your sin remains.”