John 9:5-25

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,

⁷'Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;

⁸the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, 'Is not this he who is sitting and begging?'

⁹others said — 'This is he;' and others — 'He is like to him;' he himself said, — 'I am he.'

¹⁰They said, therefore, to him, 'How were thine eyes opened?'

¹¹he answered and said, 'A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'

¹²they said, therefore, to him, 'Where is that one?' he saith, 'I have not known.'

¹³They bring him to the Pharisees who once was blind,

¹⁴and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

¹⁵Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, 'Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash — and I see.'

¹⁶Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, 'This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, 'How is a man — a sinful one — able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them.

¹⁷They said to the blind man again, 'Thou — what dost thou say of him — that he opened thine eyes?'

¹⁸and he said — 'He is a prophet.' The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight,

¹⁹and they asked them, saying, 'Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?'

²⁰His parents answered them and said, 'We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

²¹and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.'

²²These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him — Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;

²³because of this his parents said — 'He is of age, ask him.'

²⁴They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, 'Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;'

²⁵he answered, therefore, and said, 'If he be a sinner — I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'