The Gospel in Biblical Narrative

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

¹As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ²And his disciples asked him, c“Rabbi, dwho sinned, ethis man or fhis parents, that he was born blind?” ³Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but gthat the works of God might be displayed in him. ⁴We must hwork the works of him who sent me iwhile it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵As long as I am in the world, jI am the light of the world.” ⁶Having said these things, khe spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. lThen he anointed the man's eyes with the mud ⁷and said to him, “Go, wash in mthe pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and ncame back seeing.

⁸The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, o“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” ¹⁰So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” ¹¹He answered, p“The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” ¹²They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

¹³They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. ¹⁴qNow it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ¹⁵rSo the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not sfrom God, tfor he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, u“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And vthere was a division among them. ¹⁷So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, w“He is a prophet.”

¹⁸xThe Jews1 did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight ¹⁹and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” ²⁰His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. ²¹But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” ²²(His parents said these things ybecause they feared the Jews, for zthe Jews had already agreed that if anyone should aconfess Jesus2 to be Christ, bhe was to be put out of the synagogue.) ²³Therefore his parents said, c“He is of age; ask him.”

²⁴So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, d“Give glory to God. We know that ethis man is a sinner.” ²⁵He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I fwas blind, now I see.” ²⁶They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ²⁷He answered them, g“I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” ²⁸And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but hwe are disciples of Moses. ²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, iwe do not know where he comes from.” ³⁰The man answered, “Why, this is jan amazing thing! kYou do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. ³¹We know that lGod does not listen to sinners, but mif anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. ³²Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. ³³nIf this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” ³⁴They answered him, o“You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they pcast him out.

³⁵Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in qthe Son of Man?”3 ³⁶He answered, r“And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” ³⁷Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and sit is he who is speaking to you.” ³⁸He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. ³⁹Jesus said, t“For judgment I came into this world, uthat those who do not see may see, and vthose who see may become blind.” ⁴⁰Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, w“Are we also blind?” ⁴¹Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, xyou would have no guilt;4 but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.