John 9:1-6

¹And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,

²and his disciples asked him, saying, 'Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'

³Jesus answered, 'Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

⁴it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: —

⁵when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'

⁶These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,