John 9
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Sign #6: Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
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, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but this happened so that the works of God might be revealed in him. 4I must work the works of ʜɪᴍ who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. 5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6After he said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva. He applied the mud on the blind man’s eyes, 7and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
8Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” 9Some were saying, “It is he,” while others were saying, “He looks like him.”
He said, “I am he.”
10So they asked him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11He 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.”
12Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
He said, “I don’t know.”
The Pharisees Investigate the Healing
13They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees. 14Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath. 15The Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
16Then some 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?” So there was division among them.
17Then they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
18Therefore the Jews didn’t believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight, 19and asked them, “Is this y’all’s son, whom y’all say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
20His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. 21As for how he sees now, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Y’all ask him. He will speak for himself.” 22His parents said these things because they feared the Jewish leaders. For they had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ would be put out of the synagogue. 23So his parents said, “He is of age. Y’all ask 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 answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
26They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27He answered them, “I told y’all already, and y’all didn’t listen. Why do y’all want to hear it again? Y’all don’t also want to become his disciples, do y’all?”
28They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where he comes from.”
30The man answered them, “How amazing! Y’all don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does ʜɪꜱ will, ʜᴇ listens to them. 32Since the world began, no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind. 33If this man were not from God, he would not be able to do anything.”
34They answered him, “You were born entirely in sin, and yet you are teaching us?” Then they threw him out.
35When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, he found him and he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Humanity?”
36He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
37Jesus said to him, “You have seen him. He is the one speaking with you.”
38He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
39Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see and that those who see may become blind.”
40Some of the Pharisees with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
41Jesus said to them, “If y’all were blind, y’all would have no sin. But because y’all say, ‘We see,’ y’all’s sin remains.
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