John 9:4-19

⁴We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one will be able to work.

⁵While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

⁶After Jesus said these things, he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and smeared the mud on his eyes.

⁷He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,” (which is translated “Sent”). So the man went away, washed, and came back seeing.

⁸Then the man's neighbors and those who had seen him previously as a beggar were saying, “Is not this the man that used to sit and beg?”

⁹Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” But he said, “It is me.”

¹⁰They said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”

¹¹He answered, “The man who is called Jesus made mud and smeared it on my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and I received my sight.”

¹²They said to him, “Where is he?” He replied, “I do not know.”

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

¹⁴Now it was the Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

¹⁵Then again the Pharisees asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I now can see.”

¹⁶Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” So there was a division among them.

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

¹⁸Now the Jews still did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of him who had received his sight.

¹⁹They asked the parents, “Is this your son whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”