John 9:1-9 ▼

1 And Jesus, while passing by, saw a man blind from birth.

2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”

3 Jesus responded: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God would be made manifest in him.

4 I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no one is able to work.

5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6 When he had said these things, he spat on the ground, and he made clay from the spittle, and he smeared the clay over his eyes.

7 And he said to him: “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated as: one who has been sent). Therefore, he went away and washed, and he returned, seeing.

8 And so the bystanders and those who had seen him before, when he was a beggar, said, “Is this not the one who was sitting and begging?” Some said, “This is he.”

9 But others said, “Certainly not, but he is similar to him.” Yet truly, he himself said, “I am he.”