John 9:13-41

¹³They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

¹⁴Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened the man’s eyes.

¹⁵So the Pharisees were also asking him how he received his sight. He told them, “He applied mud to my eyes, I washed, and I see.”

¹⁶Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This Man isn’t from God, because He doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a sinner do such signs?” So there was a division among them.

¹⁷So they turned again to the blind man and asked, “What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” He said, “He is a prophet.”

¹⁸The Jews didn’t believe that he had been blind, and had received sight, until they called the parents of the one who had received his sight,

¹⁹and questioned them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

²⁰His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind,

²¹but how he now sees, we don’t know. Who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age. He will speak for himself.”

²²His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone would confess that Jesus was the Christ, they would be put out of the synagogue.

²³For this reason, his parents said, “Ask him. He is of age.”

²⁴So they called the man who had been blind a second time, and told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

²⁵He answered, “Whether He is a sinner or not I don’t know. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

²⁶Then they asked him again, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”

²⁷He answered, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become His disciples, too, do you?”

²⁸Then they became abusive towards him and said, “You are that man’s disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples.

²⁹We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this man, we don’t know where He is from.”

³⁰The man answered, “How amazing! You don’t know where He comes from, yet He opened my eyes.

³¹We know that God doesn’t hear sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing, and does His will, He hears him.

³²Since the beginning of time it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.

³³If this man weren’t from God, He could do nothing.”

³⁴To this they replied, “Who are you to teach us? You were born entirely in sin!” Then they threw him out.

³⁵Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, He said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

³⁶He answered, “Who is He, sir, that I may believe in Him?”

³⁷Jesus told him, “You have seen Him, and it is He who is talking with you.”

³⁸Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshipped Jesus.

³⁹Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who don’t see may see, and those who do see may become blind.”

⁴⁰Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things, and asked Him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”

⁴¹Jesus told them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin, but since you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.