John 9:2-15

²We disciples asked him, “Teacher, was this man blind from when he was born because his parents sinned or because he himself sinned?”

³Jesus replied, “His being blind was not because he or his parents sinned. Instead, he has been blind in order that people can see the power of God {the power of God can be seen} as a result of what will now happen to him.

⁴While there is still time, I must do the work that the one who sent me wants me to do. Just like daytime is followed by nighttime when people do not work, at the end of our lives MET it is too late for us to do what God wants.

⁵While I am still living in this world, I am the one who enables people to know about God, like MET a light enables the people in MTY this world to see what is in the darkness.”

⁶After he said that, he spat on the ground. He made a little bit of mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.

⁷Then he said to him, “Go and wash in Siloam pool!” (That name means ❛sent;❜ just like they sent the water by a channel into the pool, God sent Jesus). So the man went and washed in the pool, and when he went home he was able to see!

⁸His neighbors and others who previously had seen him when he was begging said, “He is the man who used to sit here and beg, isn't he?”

⁹Some said, “ Yes, he is.” Others said, “No, he is not. It is just a man who looks like him!” But the man himself said, “Yes, I am that man!”

¹⁰So they said to him, “How is it that now you can see?”

¹¹He replied, “The man whose name is Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. Then he told me to go to Siloam pool and wash. So I went there and washed, and then I could see.”

¹²They said to him, “Where is that man now?” He said, “I do not know.”

¹³They took to the Pharisees the man who was previously blind.

¹⁴The day on which Jesus made the mud and enabled the man to see again was a ◄Sabbath/Jewish day of rest►. The Pharisees considered that healing someone was work, and their rules did not permit people to do any work ◄ on the Sabbath/on the Jewish rest day►.

¹⁵So the Pharisees also asked that man, “How did you become able to see?” He said to them, “The man put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I can see!”