John 9:1-16 ▼

1 And passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,

2 and His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?”

3 Jesus answered, “Neither this one sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God may be revealed in him;

4 it is necessary for Me to be working the works of Him who sent Me while it is day; night comes when no one is able to work:

5 when I am in the world, I AM [the] light of the world.”

6 Saying these things, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,

7 “Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,” which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and washed, and came seeing;

8 the neighbors, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, “Is this not he who is sitting and begging?”

9 Others said, “This is he”; and others, “He is like to him”; he himself said, “I am [he].”

10 They said, therefore, to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

11 He answered and said, “A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight”;

12 they said, therefore, to him, “Where is that One?” He says, “I have not known.”

13 They bring him who once [was] blind to the Pharisees,

14 and it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

15 Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed—and I see.”

16 Certain of the Pharisees therefore said, “This Man is not from God, because He does not keep the Sabbath”; others said, “How is a man—a sinful one—able to do such signs?” And there was a division among them.