John 9:5-9

⁵As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

⁶Saying this, Jesus spat on the ground, made clay with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.

⁷“Go,” he said, “and wash your eyes in the Bath of Siloam” (a word which means ‘messenger’). So the man went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

⁸His neighbors, and those who had formerly known him by sight as a beggar, exclaimed, “Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?”

⁹“Yes,” some said, “it is”; while others said, “No, but he is like him.” The man himself said, “I am he.”