New Testament · Gospels and Acts

John chapter 9

As Jesus was walking along, he noticed a man who had been .His asked him, “, who — this man or his parents — that he was born blind?”Jesus answered, “Neither this man failed nor his parents. This happened so that through his life.”We need to do the work of while it’s still . Night is coming when no one can work.As long as I’m in the , I am .After he said this, he spit on the ground, with the saliva, and spread the mud on the man’s eyes.Then he told him, “Go wash in the ” (which means “Sent”). So the man went, washed, and came back able to see.His neighbors and the people who had seen him before as a started asking, “Isn’t this the guy who used to sit and beg?”Some said, “That’s him.” Others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man himself kept saying, “. It’s me.”So they asked him, “Then how were ?”He answered, “The man called Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and then I could see.”They asked him, “Where is this man?” He said, “I don’t know.”They brought the man who had been blind to the .Now, the day Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a .So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He told them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and now I can see.”Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not — he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How could do such ?” And they were divided.So they turned back to the blind man and asked, “What do you have to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” He said, “He’s a .”The didn’t believe that the man had actually been blind and received his sight until they called in his parents.“Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? So how does he see now?”His parents answered, “We know this is our son, and we know he was born blind.”But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes — we have no idea. Ask him. He’s an adult. He can speak for himself.His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who had already decided that anyone who acknowledged Jesus as would be .That’s why his parents said, “He’s an adult. Ask him.”So for a second time they called in the man who had been blind and said to him, “ by telling the truth. We know this man is .”He answered, “Whether he or not, I have no idea. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see.”They asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”He answered, “I already told you and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his too?”They at him and said, “You are this man’s student! We are !”“We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this man, we don’t even know .”The man answered, “Now that’s remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.”“We know that God doesn’t listen to people who fail him. He listens to those who and do what he wants.”“Nobody has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind since the beginning of time.”“If this man were not from God, he couldn’t do anything.”They answered him, “You were , and you’re trying to teach us?” And they .Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he asked, “Do you in the ?”“Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so I can trust in him.”Jesus said, “You’ve already seen him. In fact, he’s the one talking with you right now.”Then the man said, “, I trust you.” And he .Jesus said, “I came into this world to bring — so that those who are blind will see, and those who think they see will become blind.”Some Pharisees who were nearby heard him say this and asked, “Wait — are you saying we’re blind too?”Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be . But since you claim you can see, .”