The In-Dept Study of the Bible
John 09
1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind
from birth.
2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who
sinned,this manor his parents,thathe was
born blind?”
3 Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin,
nor did his parents, but that the works of
God might be revealed in him.
4 I must work the works of him who sent
me while it is day. The night is coming,
when no one can work.
5 While I am in the world, I am the light
of the world.”
6 When he had said this, he spat on
the ground, made mud with the saliva,
anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of
Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went
away, washed, and came back seeing.
8 Therefore the neighbors and those who
saw that he was blind before said, “Isn’t
this he who sat and begged?”
9 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still
others were saying, “He looks like him.”
He said, “I am he.”
10 They therefore were askinghim, “How
were your eyes opened?”
11 He answered, “A man called Jesus
made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to
me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So
I went away and washed, and I received
sight.”
12 Then they asked him, “Where is he?”
He said, “I don’t know.”
13 They brought him who had been blind
to the Pharisees.
14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the
mud and opened his eyes.
15 Again therefore the Pharisees also
asked him how he received his sight. He
said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I
washed, and I see.”
16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said,
“This man is not from God, because he
doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said,
“How can a man who is a sinner do such
signs?” So there was division among them.
17 Therefore they asked the blind man
again, “What do you say about him,
because he opened your eyes?”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
18 The Jews therefore didn’t believe
concerning him, that he had been blind and
had received his sight, until they called the
parents of him who had received his sight,
19 and asked them, “Is this your son,
whom you say was born blind? How then
does he now see?”
20 His parents answered them, “We
know that this is our son, and that
he was born blind;
21 but how he now sees, we don’t know;
or who opened his eyes, we don’t know.
He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for
himself.”
22 His parents said these things because
they feared the Jews; for the Jews had
already agreed that if any man would
confess him as Christ, he would be put out of
the synagogue.
23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of
age. Ask him.”
24 So they called the man who was blind
a second time, and said to him, “Give glory
to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know
if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that
though I was blind, now I see.”
26 They said to him again, “What did he
do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27 He answered them, “I told you already,
and you didn’t listen. Why do you
want to hear it again? You don’t also want
to become his disciples, do you?”
28 They insulted him and said, “You are
his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God has spoken to
Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know
where he comes from.”
30 The man answered them, “How amazing! You
don’t know where he comes from,
yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that God doesn’t listen to
sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of
God and does his will, he listens to him.*
32 Since the world began it has never
been heard ofthat anyone opened the eyes
of someone born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, he
could do nothing.”
34 They answered him, “You were altogether
born in sins, and do you teach us?”
Then they threw him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him
out, and finding him, he said, “Do you
believe in the Son of God?”
36 He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I
may believe in him?”
37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen
him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
38 He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he
worshiped him.
39 Jesus said, “I came into this world for
judgment, that those who don’t see may
see; and that those who see may become
blind.”
40 Those of the Pharisees who were with
him heard these things, and said to him,
“Are we also blind?”
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind,
you would have no sin; but now you say,
‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.