John 9:1-21 ▼

1 And as Iesus passed by, he saw a man whiche was blynde fro his birth:

2 And his disciples asked hym, saying: Maister, who did sinne, this man, or his father and mother, that he was borne blynde?

3 Iesus aunswered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor yet his father & mother: but that the workes of God shoulde be shewed in hym.

4 I must worke the workes of him that sent me, whyle it is daye. The nyght commeth when no man can worke.

5 As long as I am in the world, I am the lyght of the worlde.

6 Assoone as he had thus spoke, he spat on the grounde, and made claye of the spittle, and he annoynted with the claye the eyes of the blynde,

7 And sayde vnto hym: Go, washe thee in the poole of Siloe, whiche by interpretation, is as much to say, as sent. He went his way therefore, & washed, and came agayne, seyng.

8 So, the neyghbours, and they that hadde seene hym before when he was blynde, sayde: Is not this he that sate and begged?

9 Some sayde, this is he: Other sayde, he is lyke hym. He hym selfe sayde, I am euen he.

10 Therfore sayde they vnto him: Howe are thyne eyes opened?

11 He aunswered and sayde: The man that is called Iesus made claye, and annoynted myne eyes, and sayde vnto me, go to the poole Siloe and washe: And when I went and washed, I receaued my syght.

12 Then sayde they vnto hym, where is he? He sayde, I can not tell.

13 They brought to the pharisees, hym that a litle before was blynde.

14 And it was the Sabboth day when Iesus made ye claye, & opened his eyes.

15 Then againe the pharisees also asked hym, howe he had receaued his syght. He sayde vnto them: He put claye vpon myne eyes, and I washed, and do see.

16 Therfore sayde some of the pharisees, this man is not of God, because he kepeth not the Sabboth day. Other said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a stryfe among them.

17 They spake vnto the blynde man againe: What sayest thou of him, because he hath opened thyne eyes? He sayde, he is a prophete.

18 But the Iewes dyd not beleue the man, howe that he had ben blynde, and receaued his syght, vntyll they called the father and mother of hym that had receaued his syght:

19 And they asked them, saying: Is this your sonne, whom ye saye was borne blynde? Howe doeth he nowe see then?

20 His father & mother aunswered them, and sayde: We knowe that this is our sonne, and that he was borne blynde:

21 But by what meanes he now seeth, we can not tell: Or who hath opened his eyes, can not we tell. He is olde inough, aske him, let him aunswere for himselfe.