Murdock - John - 9

9:1  And while passing, he saw a man blind from his mother's womb.

9:2  And his disciples asked him, and said: Our Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?

9:3  Jesus said to them: Neither did he sin, nor his parents; but that the works of God might be seen in him.

9:4  I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day; the night cometh, in which no one can work.

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

9:6  And having spoken thus, he spit on the ground, and made mud with the spittle, and spread it on the eyes of the blind man;

9:7  and said to him: Go, wash in the baptistery of Siloam. And he went, and washed, and came away seeing.

9:8  And his neighbors, and they by whom he had before been seen begging, said: Is not this he, who sat and begged?

9:9  Some said, It is he: and others said, No; but he is very like him. But he said: I am he.

9:10  And they said to him: How were thy eyes opened?

9:11  He answered, and said to them: A man whose name is Jesus, made mud and spread it on my eyes, and said to me, Go, wash in the waters of Siloam. And I went, and washed, and my sight was restored.

9:12  They said to him: Where is he? He said to them: I know not.

9:13  And they brought him that had been blind, before the Pharisees.

9:14  Now it was on the sabbath that Jesus made the mud, and opened his eyes.

9:15  And again the Pharisees asked him: How was thy sight restored? And he said to them: He put mud upon my eyes, and I washed, and my sight was restored.

9:16  And some of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, for he doth not observe the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner, work these signs? And there was a division among them.

9:17  They say again to the blind man: What sayest thou of him, seeing he hath opened thy eyes? He said to them: I say, that he is a prophet.

9:18  And the Jews would not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and recovered sight, until they called the parents of him who recovered sight.

9:19  And they asked them: Is this your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? And how doth he now see?

9:20  And his parents answered and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

9:21  but how he now seeth, or who opened his eyes, we know not. He hath come to his years, ask him; he will speak for himself.

9:22  These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had decided, that if any one should confess him to be Messiah, they would expel him from the synagogue.

9:23  For this reason his parents said, He hath come to his years, ask him.

9:24  And they called a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God; for we know that this man is a sinner.

9:25  He replied, and said to them: Whether he is a sinner, I know not; but, one thing I know, that I was blind, and lo, now I see.

9:26  They said to him again: What did he to thee? How did he open thy eyes?

9:27  He said to them: I have told you, and ye did not hear. Why would ye hear again? Do ye also wish to become his disciples?

9:28  But they reproached him, and said to him: Thou art his disciple, but we are the disciples of Moses.

9:29  And we know that God conversed with Moses; but as for this man, we know not whence he is.

9:30  The man replied and said to them: In this therefore is something to be admired, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he hath opened my eyes.

9:31  Now we know, that God heareth not the voice of sinners; but him that feareth him, and doeth his pleasure, him he heareth.

9:32  Never hath it been heard, that any one opened the eyes of one born blind.

9:33  If this man were not of God, he could not do this thing.

9:34  They replied, and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and dost thou teach us? And they expelled him.

9:35  And Jesus heard that they had expelled him; and he found him, and said to him: Believest thou on the Son of God?

9:36  And he that was healed, answered and said: My Lord, who is he, that I may believe on him?

9:37  Jesus said to him: Thou hast seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee.

9:38  And he said: My Lord, I believe: and he fell down, and worshipped him.

9:39  And Jesus said: For the judgment of this world, have I come; that they who see not, might see; and that they who see, might become blind.

9:40  And some of those Pharisees who were with him, heard these things; and they said to him: How? Are we also blind?

9:41  Jesus said to them: If ye were blind, ye would be without sin; but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin is established.