John 9:2
Good News Translation
His disciples asked him, "Teacher, whose sin caused him to be born blind? Was it his own or his parents' sin?"

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

Contemporary English Version
Jesus' disciples asked, "Teacher, why was this man born blind? Was it because he or his parents sinned?"

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

Douay-Rheims Bible
And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?

who.

John 9:34 They answered and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

Matthew 16:14 But they said: Some John the Baptist, and other some Elias, and others Jeremias, or one of the prophets.

Context
Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind
1And Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth. 2And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind? 3Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.…
Cross References
Exodus 20:5
Thou shalt not adore them, nor serve them: I am the Lord thy God, mighty, jealous, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children, unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me:

Matthew 23:7
And salutations in the market place, and to be called by men, Rabbi.

Matthew 23:8
But be not you called Rabbi. For one is your master: and all you are brethren.

Luke 13:2
And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things?

John 4:31
In the mean time, the disciples prayed him, saying: Rabbi, eat.

John 9:1
And Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth.

John 9:34
They answered and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.

Acts 28:4
And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.

John 9:1
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