1As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.
2“Rabbi,” asked his disciples, “who was it that sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3“Neither the man nor the parents,” replied Jesus; “but he was born blind so that the work of God should be made plain in him.
4We must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6Saying this, Jesus spat on the ground, made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.
7“Go,” he said, “and wash your eyes in the Bath of Siloam” (a word which means ‘messenger’). So the man went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.
8His neighbours, and those who had formerly known him by sight as a beggar, exclaimed, “Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?”
9“Yes,” some said, “it is”; while others said, “No, but he is like him.” The man himself said, “I am he.”
10“How did you get your sight, then?” they asked.
11“The man whom they call Jesus,” he answered, “made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me ‘Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.’ So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight.”
12“Where is he?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.
13They took the man, who had been blind, to the Pharisees.
14Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and gave him his sight.
15So the Pharisees also questioned the man as to how he had gained his sight. “He put clay on my eyes,” he answered, “and I washed them, and I can see.”
16“The man cannot be from God,” said some of the Pharisees, “for he does not keep the Sabbath.” “How is it possible,” retorted others, “for a bad man to give signs like this?”
17So there was a difference of opinion amongst them, and they again questioned the man; “What do you yourself say about him, for it is to you that he has given sight?”
18The religious authorities, however, refused to believe that he had been blind and had gained his sight, until they had called his parents and questioned them.
John 9
John 9:1-18