John 9:1-9 ▼

1 And, passing along, he saw a man blind from his birth.

2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

3 Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

4 We must work the works of Him Who sent Me, while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work.

5 When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."

6 Having thus spoken, He spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,

7 and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is interpreted, Sent). He went, therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

8 The neighbors, therefore, and those formerly beholding him, that he was a beggar, said, "Is not this he that sits and begs?"

9 Some said, "This is he;" others said , "No, but he is like him;" he said, "I am he ."