ISV - John - 9

9:1  Jesus Heals a Blind ManAs he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.

9:2  His disciples asked him, “Rabbi,Rabbi is Heb. for Master and/or Teacher who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?”

9:3  Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so thatLit. But so that the works of God might be revealed in him.

9:4  IOther mss. read We must work the works of the one who sent meOther mss. read us while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work.

9:5  As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

9:6  After saying this, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he spread the mud on the man's eyes

9:7  and told him, “Go and wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated “Sent One”). So he went off and washed and came back seeing.

9:8  Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar said, “This is the man who used to sit and beg, isn't it?”

9:9  Some were saying, “It is he,” while others were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.”He himself kept saying, “It is I!”

9:10  So they said to him, “How, then, were your eyes opened?”

9:11  He said, “The man named Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So off I went and washed, and I received my sight.”

9:12  They said to him, “Where is that man?”He said, “I don't know!”

9:13  The Pharisees Investigate the HealingSo they brought to the Pharisees the man who had once been blind.

9:14  Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

9:15  So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He told them, “He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see.”

9:16  Some of the Pharisees began to remark, “This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath.”But others were saying, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.

9:17  So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, for it was your eyes he opened?”He said, “He is a prophet.”

9:18  The JewsI.e. Jewish leaders did not believeLit. believe about him that he had been blind and had been given sight until they summoned his parentsLit. the parents of the man who had been given sight

9:19  and asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?”

9:20  His parents replied, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

9:21  But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself.”

9:22  His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews.I.e. Jewish leaders For the JewsI.e. Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that JesusLit. he was the ChristI.e. the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.

9:23  That's why his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”

9:24  So for a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

9:25  But he responded, “I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!”

9:26  Then they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

9:27  He answered them, “I've already told you, but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples, too, do you?”

9:28  At this, they turned on him furiously and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!

9:29  We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from.”

9:30  The man answered them, “This is an amazing thing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

9:31  We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will.

9:32  Never since creation has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man who was born blind.

9:33  If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that.”

9:34  They said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and you are trying to instruct us?” And they threw him out.

9:35  Spiritual BlindnessJesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”Other mss. read Son of God

9:36  He answered, “And who is he, sir?Or Lord Tell me,The Gk. lacks Tell me so that I may believe in him.”

9:37  Jesus said to him, “You have seen him. He is the person who is talking with you.”

9:38  He said, “Lord, I do believe,” and worshiped him.

9:39  Then Jesus said, “I have come into this world for judgment, so that those who are blind may see, and those who see may become blind.”

9:40  Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and said to him, “We aren't blind, too, are we?”

9:41  Jesus told them, “If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”