John - Chapter 9

Passage

And Jesus, passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who has sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind? Jesus answered: Neither has this man sinned, nor his parents; but it is so that the works of God may be made known in him. I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day: the night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay from the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes, And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which means Sent. He went therefore and washed: and he came back seeing. The neighbors therefore, and those who had seen him before as a beggar, said: Is not this the one who sat and begged? Some said: This is he. But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he. They said therefore to him: How were your eyes opened? He answered: The man who is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe and wash. And I went: I washed: and I see. And they said to him: Where is he? He said: I do not know. They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees. Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. Again therefore the Pharisees asked him how he had received his sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes: and I washed: and I see. Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not from God, because he does not keep the sabbath. But others said: How can a man who is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. They said therefore to the blind man again: What do you say about him who has opened your eyes? And he said: He is a prophet. The Jews then did not believe about him that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight, And asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see? His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son and that he was born blind: But how he now sees, we do not know: or who has opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him: he is of age: let him speak for himself. These things his parents said because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if anyone should confess him to be the Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. That is why his parents said: He is of age. Ask him. They therefore called again the man who had been blind and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner. He said therefore to them: Whether he is a sinner, I do not know. One thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see. They said then to him: What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples? They insulted him therefore and said: You be his disciple; but we are the disciples of Moses. We know that God spoke to Moses: but as for this man, we do not know where he is from. The man answered and said to them: Why, this is a wonderful thing, that you do not know where he is from, and he has opened my eyes. Now we know that God does not hear sinners: but if a man is a worshiper of God and does his will, him he hears. Since the beginning of the world it has not been heard that anyone has opened the eyes of one born blind. Unless this man were from God, he could not do anything. They answered and said to him: You were wholly born in sins; and are you teaching us? And they cast him out. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said to him: Do you believe in the Son of God? He answered and said: Who is he, Lord, so that I may believe in him? And Jesus said to him: You have both seen him; and it is he who is talking with you. And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him. And Jesus said: For judgment I have come into this world: so that those who do not see may see; and those who see may become blind. And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this: and they said to him: Are we also blind? Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you would not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remains.