Chapter 9

  As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.  

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  His disciples asked him, 'Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?'  

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  Jesus answered, 'Neither did this man sin, nor his parents. But, that the works of God might be revealed in him,  

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  I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.  

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  When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.'  

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  When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,  

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  and said to him, 'Go, wash in the pool of Siloam' (which means 'Sent'). So he went away, washed, and came seeing.  

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  The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind, before, said, 'Isn't this he who sat and begged?'  

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  Others said, 'It is he.' Still others said, 'He is like him.' He said, 'I am he.'  

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  They said therefore to him, 'How were your eyes opened?'  

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  He answered, 'A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.' So I went away and washed, and I received sight.'  

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  Then they asked him, 'Where is he?' He said, 'I don't know.'  

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  They brought him who before was blind to the Pharisees.  

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  It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.  

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  Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, 'He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.'  

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  Some therefore of the Pharisees said, 'This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath.' Others said, 'How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?' There was division among them.  

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  Therefore they asked the blind man again, 'What do you say about him, in that he opened your eyes?' He said, 'He is a prophet.'  

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

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  and asked them, 'Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?'  

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  His parents answered them, 'We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;  

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  but how he now sees, we don't know; or who opened his eyes, we don't know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.'  

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  His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.  

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  Therefore his parents said, 'He is of age. Ask him.'  

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  So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, 'Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.'  

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  He therefore answered, 'I don't know if he is a sinner. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.'  

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  They said to him again, 'What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?'  

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  He answered them, 'I told you already, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?'  

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  They became abusive towards him and said, 'You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.  

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  We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from.'  

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  The man answered them, 'How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.  

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  We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God, and does his will, he listens to him.  

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  Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.  

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

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  They answered him, 'You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?' They threw him out.  

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  Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, 'Do you believe in the Son of God?'  

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  He answered, 'Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?'  

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  Jesus said to him, 'You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.'  

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  He said, 'Lord, I believe!' and he worshipped him.  

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  Jesus said, 'I came into this world for judgment, that those who don't see may see; and that those who see may become blind.'  

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  Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, 'Are we also blind?'  

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

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