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Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
A Man Born Blind Receives Sight
Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.
Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.
“Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”
And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him.
Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.
But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world.”
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes.
When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.
He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!
And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!”
But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”
But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”
They asked, “Who healed you? What happened?”
Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
He told them, “The man they call Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.’ So I went and washed, and now I can see!”
“Where is he now?” they asked.
“I don’t know,” he replied.
“I don’t know,” he replied.
Then they said to him, “Where is He?”
He said, “I do not know.”
He said, “I do not know.”
Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees,
The Pharisees Excommunicate the Healed Man
They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees.
They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees.
because it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the mud and healed him.
Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, “He put the mud over my eyes, and when I washed it away, I could see!”
Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
Some of the Pharisees said, “This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath.” Others said, “But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?” So there was a deep division of opinion among them.
Then the Pharisees again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded, “What’s your opinion about this man who healed you?”
The man replied, “I think he must be a prophet.”
The man replied, “I think he must be a prophet.”
They said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him because He opened your eyes?”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
The Jewish leaders still refused to believe the man had been blind and could now see, so they called in his parents.
But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight.
They asked them, “Is this your son? Was he born blind? If so, how can he now see?”
And they asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
His parents replied, “We know this is our son and that he was born blind,
His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
but we don’t know how he can see or who healed him. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
but by what means he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.”
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who had announced that anyone saying Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue.
His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
That’s why they said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”
Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
So they again called the man who was blind, and said to him, “Give God the glory! We know that this Man is a sinner.”
“I don’t know whether he is a sinner,” the man replied. “But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!”
He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
“But what did he do?” they asked. “How did he heal you?”
Then they said to him again, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”
“Look!” the man exclaimed. “I told you once. Didn’t you listen? Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?”
He answered them, “I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”
Then they cursed him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!
Then they reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples.
We know God spoke to Moses, but we don’t even know where this man comes from.”
We know that God spoke to Moses; as for this fellow, we do not know where He is from.”
“Why, that’s very strange!” the man replied. “He healed my eyes, and yet you don’t know where he comes from?
The man answered and said to them, “Why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know where He is from; yet He has opened my eyes!
We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will.
Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.
Ever since the world began, no one has been able to open the eyes of someone born blind.
Since the world began it has been unheard of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind.
If this man were not from God, he couldn’t have done it.”
If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing.”
“You were born a total sinner!” they answered. “Are you trying to teach us?” And they threw him out of the synagogue.
The man answered, “Who is he, sir? I want to believe in him.”
He answered and said, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?”
“You have seen him,” Jesus said, “and he is speaking to you!”
And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you.”
“Yes, Lord, I believe!” the man said. And he worshiped Jesus.
Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshiped Him.
And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”
Some Pharisees who were standing nearby heard him and asked, “Are you saying we’re blind?”
Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?”