Chapter 9
John · Holy Apostle and Evangelist John the Theologian
¹ As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ² His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
Jn 9:1-2
³ Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him. ⁴ I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ⁶ When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, ⁷ and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
Jn 9:3-7
⁸ Therefore the neighbors and those who saw that he was blind before said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?” ⁹ Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.”
Jn 9:8-9
¹¹ He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
Jn 9:11
¹³ They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴ It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
Jn 9:13-15
¹⁶ Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.”
Jn 9:16
¹⁷ Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?”
Jn 9:17
¹⁸ The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, ¹⁹ and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
Jn 9:18-19
²⁰ His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ²¹ but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.” ²² His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. ²³ Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
Jn 9:20-23
²⁴ So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
Jn 9:24
²⁵ He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
Jn 9:25
²⁷ He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
Jn 9:27
²⁸ They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
Jn 9:28-29
³⁰ The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. ³¹ We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him. ³² Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. ³³ If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
Jn 9:30-33
³⁴ They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
Jn 9:34
³⁵ Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
Jn 9:35
³⁹ Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
Jn 9:39
⁴⁰ Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
Jn 9:40