John 9:1-16 ▼

1 Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

2 His disciples asked him, |Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?|

3 Jesus answered, |Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

4 We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. 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 Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man's eyes

7 and said to him, |Go wash in the pool of Siloam| (which is translated |sent|). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, |Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?|

9 Some people said, |This is the man!| while others said, |No, but he looks like him.| The man himself kept insisting, |I am the one!|

10 So they asked him, |How then were you made to see?|

11 He replied, |The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and was able to see.|

12 They said to him, |Where is that man?| He replied, |I don't know.|

13 They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, |He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see.|

16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say, |This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.| But others said, |How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?| Thus there was a division among them.