John 9:1-15

¹As Jesus was passing by, he saw a man born blind.

²His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, why was this man born blind? Was it him who sinned, or was it his parents?”

³Jesus replied, “It wasn't because the man or his parents sinned. But so that what God can do may be shown in his life,

⁴we have to keep on doing the work of the one who sent me as long as it is still daytime. The night is coming when no one can work.

⁵While I'm here in the world I am the light of the world.”

⁶After he'd said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva which he put on the man's eyes.

⁷Then Jesus told him, “Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “sent”). So the man went and washed, and when he went home he could see.

⁸His neighbors and those who had known him as a beggar, asked, “Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?”

⁹Some said he was, while others said “no, it's just someone who looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “It is me!”

¹⁰“So how is it you can see?” they asked him.

¹¹He replied, “A man called Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes and told me, ‘Go and wash yourself in the Pool of Siloam.’ So I went and washed, and now I can see.”

¹²“Where is he?” they asked. “I don't know,” he replied.

¹³They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

¹⁴Now it was the Sabbath when Jesus had made the mud and opened the blind man's eyes.

¹⁵So the Pharisees also asked him how he could see. He told them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”