Yohanes 9

9:1 Now as Jesus was passing by, ¹  he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 9:2 His disciples asked him, ²  “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man ³  or his parents?” ⁴  9:3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man ⁵  nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that ⁶  the acts ⁷  of God may be revealed ⁸  through what happens to him. ⁹  9:4 We must perform the deeds ¹⁰  of the one who sent me ¹¹  as long as ¹²  it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work. 9:5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ¹³  9:6 Having said this, ¹⁴  he spat on the ground and made some mud ¹⁵  with the saliva. He ¹⁶  smeared the mud on the blind man’s ¹⁷  eyes 9:7 and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” ¹⁸  (which is translated “sent”). ¹⁹  So the blind man ²⁰  went away and washed, and came back seeing.

9:8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously ²¹  as a beggar began saying, ²²  “Is this not the man ²³  who used to sit and beg?” 9:9 Some people said, ²⁴  “This is the man!” ²⁵  while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” ²⁶  The man himself ²⁷  kept insisting, “I am the one!” ²⁸  9:10 So they asked him, ²⁹  “How then were you made to see?” ³⁰  9:11 He replied, ³¹  “The man called Jesus made mud, ³²  smeared it ³³  on my eyes and told me, ³⁴  ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.” ³⁵  9:12 They said ³⁶  to him, “Where is that man?” ³⁷  He replied, ³⁸  “I don’t know.”

9:13 They brought the man who used to be blind ³⁹  to the Pharisees. ⁴⁰  9:14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud ⁴¹  and caused him to see ⁴²  was a Sabbath.) ⁴³  9:15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. ⁴⁴  He replied, ⁴⁵  “He put mud ⁴⁶  on my eyes and I washed, and now ⁴⁷  I am able to see.”

9:16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say, ⁴⁸  “This man is not from God, because he does not observe ⁴⁹  the Sabbath.” ⁵⁰  But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform ⁵¹  such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division ⁵²  among them. 9:17 So again they asked the man who used to be blind, ⁵³  “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” ⁵⁴  “He is a prophet,” the man replied. ⁵⁵ 

9:18 Now the Jewish religious leaders ⁵⁶  refused to believe ⁵⁷  that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned ⁵⁸  the parents of the man who had become able to see. ⁵⁹  9:19 They asked the parents,