John 9:1-9 ▼

1 As he passed by he saw a man blind from birth.

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

3 Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him.

4 We have to do the works of the one who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work.

5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes,

7 and said to him, “Go wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed, and came back able to see.

8 His neighbors and those who had seen him earlier as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit and beg?”

9 Some said, “It is,” but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” He said, “I am.”