9John 9

1As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.Select John 9:1

2So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"Select John 9:2

3"Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.Select John 9:3

4We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.Select John 9:4

5When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."Select John 9:5

6After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him,Select John 9:6

7"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" --the name means `Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.Select John 9:7

8His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"Select John 9:8

9"Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man."Select John 9:9

10"How then were your eyes opened?" they asked.Select John 9:10

11"He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight."Select John 9:11

12"Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.Select John 9:12

13They brought him to the Pharisees--the man who had been blind.Select John 9:13

14Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's eyes was the Sabbath.Select John 9:14

15So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see."Select John 9:15

16This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.Select John 9:16

17And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? --for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied.Select John 9:17

18The Jews, however, did not believe the statement concerning him--that he had been blind and had obtained his sight--until they called his parents and asked them,Select John 9:18

19"Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?"Select John 9:19

20"We know," replied the parents, "that this is our son and that he was born blind;Select John 9:20

21but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it."Select John 9:21

22Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue.Select John 9:22

23That was why his parents said, "He is of full age: ask him himself."Select John 9:23

24A second time therefore they called the man who had been blind, and said, "Give God the praise: we know that that man is a sinner."Select John 9:24

25"Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know," he replied; "one thing I know--that I was once blind and that now I can see."Select John 9:25

26"What did he do to you?" they asked; "how did he open your eyes?"Select John 9:26

27"I have told you already," he replied, "and you did not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also mean to be disciples of his?"Select John 9:27

28Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.Select John 9:28

29We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from."Select John 9:29

30"Why, this is marvellous!" the man replied; "you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!Select John 9:30

31We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.Select John 9:31

32From the beginning of the world such a thing was never heard of as that any one should open the eyes of a man blind from his birth.Select John 9:32

33Had that man not come from God, he could have done nothing."Select John 9:33

34"You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin, and do *you* teach *us*?" And they put him out of the synagogue.Select John 9:34

35Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"Select John 9:35

36"Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."Select John 9:36

37"You have seen Him," said Jesus; "and not only so: He is now speaking to you."Select John 9:37

38"I believe, Sir," he said. And he threw himself at His feet.Select John 9:38

39"I came into this world," said Jesus, "to judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may become blind."Select John 9:39

40These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, "Are *we* also blind?"Select John 9:40

41"If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin; but as a matter of fact you boast that you see. So your sin remains!"Select John 9:41