Jesus
Heals a
Man Born
Blind
1
As he went
along, he
saw a man
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,”
said
Jesus,
“but this
happened
so that
the works
of God
might be
displayed
in him.
4 As long
as it is
day, we
must do
the works
of him who
sent me.
Night is
coming,
when no
one can
work.
5 While I
am in the
world, I
am the
light of
the
world.”
6 After
saying
this, he
spit on
the
ground,
made some
mud with
the
saliva,
and put it
on the
man’s
eyes.
7 “Go,” he
told him,
“wash in
the Pool
of Siloam”
(this word
means
“Sent”).
So the man
went and
washed,
and came
home
seeing.
8 His
neighbors
and those
who had
formerly
seen him
begging
asked,
“Isn’t
this the
same man
who used
to sit and
beg?”
9 Some
claimed
that he
was.
Others
said, “No,
he only
looks like
him.”
But he
himself
insisted,
“I am the
man.”
10 “How
then were
your eyes
opened?”
they
asked.
11 He
replied,
“The man
they call
Jesus made
some mud
and put it
on my
eyes. He
told me to
go to
Siloam and
wash. So I
went and
washed,
and then I
could
see.”
12 “Where
is this
man?” they
asked him.
“I don’t
know,” he
said.
The
Pharisees
Investigate
the
Healing
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath.
15 Therefore
the
Pharisees
also asked
him how he
had
received
his sight.
“He put
mud on my
eyes,” the
man
replied,
“and I
washed,
and now I
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
sinner
perform
such
signs?” So
they were
divided.
17 Then
they
turned
again to
the blind
man, “What
have you
to say
about him?
It was
your eyes
he
opened.”
The man
replied,
“He is a
prophet.”
18 They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents.
19 “Is
this your
son?” they
asked. “Is
this the
one you
say was
born
blind? How
is it that
now he can
see?”
20 “We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind.
21 But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.”
22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
23 That
was why
his
parents
said, “He
is of age;
ask him.”
24 A
second
time they
summoned
the man
who had
been
blind.
“Give
glory to
God by
telling
the
truth,”
they said.
“We know
this man
is a
sinner.”
25 He
replied,
“Whether
he is a
sinner or
not, I
don’t
know. One
thing I do
know. I
was blind
but now I
see!”
26 Then
they asked
him, “What
did he do
to you?
How did he
open your
eyes?”
27 He
answered,
“I have
told you
already
and you
did not
listen.
Why do you
want to
hear it
again? Do
you want
to become
his
disciples
too?”
28 Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses!
29 We know
that God
spoke to
Moses, but
as for
this
fellow, we
don’t even
know where
he comes
from.”
30 The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will.
32 Nobody
has ever
heard of
opening
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
steeped in
sin at
birth; how
dare you
lecture
us!” And
they threw
him out.
Spiritual
Blindness
35 Jesus
heard that
they had
thrown him
out, and
when he
found him,
he said,
“Do you
believe in
the Son of
Man?”
36 “Who is
he, sir?”
the man
asked.
“Tell me
so that I
may
believe in
him.”
37 Jesus
said, “You
have now
seen him;
in fact,
he is the
one
speaking
with you.”
38 Then
the man
said,
“Lord, I
believe,”
and he
worshiped
him.
39 Jesus
said, “For
judgment I
have come
into this
world, so
that the
blind will
see and
those who
see will
become
blind.”
40 Some
Pharisees
who were
with him
heard him
say this
and asked,
“What? Are
we blind
too?”