1 As He was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth.
2 His disciples questioned Him: “ Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? ”
3 “Neither this man nor his parents sinned ,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works might be displayed in him.
4 We must do the works of Him who sent Me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 After He said these things He spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.
7 “Go ,” He told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “ Sent ”). So he left, washed, and came back seeing.
8 His neighbors and those who formerly had seen him as a beggar said, “ Isn’t this the man who sat begging? ”
9 Some said, “ He’s the one.” “ No,” others were saying, “ but he looks like him.” He kept saying, “ I’m the one! ”
10 Therefore they asked him, “ Then how were your eyes opened? ”
11 He answered, “ The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash .’ So when I went and washed I received my sight.”
12 “ Where is He ? ” they asked.“ I don’t know,” he said.
13 They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.
14 The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.
15 So again the Pharisees asked him how he received his sight.“ He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “ I washed and I can see.”
16 Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “ This man is not from God, for He doesn’t keep the Sabbath ! ” But others were saying, “ How can a sinful man perform such signs ? ” And there was a division among them.
17 Again they asked the blind man, “ What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes? ”“ He’s a prophet,” he said.
18 The Jews did not believe this about him — that he was blind and received sight — until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.
19 They asked them, “ Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see? ”
20 “ We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.
21 “ But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”
