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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, "Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?" |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9Some claimed that he was. Others said, "No, he only looks like him." But he himself insisted, "I am the man." |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10"How then were your eyes opened?" they asked. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11He 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12"Where is this man?" they asked him. "I don't know," he said. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man's eyes was a Sabbath. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15Therefore 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16Some 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man's parents. |
| 19[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 20"We know he is our son," the parents answered, "and we know he was born blind. |
| 21[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 21But 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 22His 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 23That was why his parents said, "He is of age; ask him." |
| 24[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 24A 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 25He 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 26Then they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" |
| 27[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 27He 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[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 28Then they hurled insults at him and said, "You are this fellow's disciple! We are disciples of Moses! |
| 29[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 29We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don't even know where he comes from." |
| 30[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 30The man answered, "Now that is remarkable! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. |
| 31[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 31We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will. |
| 32[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 32Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. |
| 33[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." |
| 34[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 34To this they replied, "You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!" And they threw him out. |
| 35[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" |
| 36[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 36"Who is he, sir?" the man asked. "Tell me so that I may believe in him." |
| 37[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 37Jesus said, "You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you." |
| 38[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 38Then the man said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him. |
| 39[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 39Jesus said, "For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind." |
| 40[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 40Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, "What? Are we blind too?" |
| 41[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 41Jesus said, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains. |
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