John 9 :: English Standard Version (ESV)

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

Jhn 9:1As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

Jhn 9:2And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

Jhn 9:3Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him.

Jhn 9:4

Jhn 9:4We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

Jhn 9:5

Jhn 9:5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

Jhn 9:6

Jhn 9:6Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud

Jhn 9:7

Jhn 9:7and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.

Jhn 9:8

Jhn 9:8The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

Jhn 9:9

Jhn 9:9Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.”

Jhn 9:10

Jhn 9:10So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”

Jhn 9:11

Jhn 9:11He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.”

Jhn 9:12

Jhn 9:12They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

Jhn 9:13

Jhn 9:13They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.

Jhn 9:14

Jhn 9:14Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.

Jhn 9:15

Jhn 9:15So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

Jhn 9:16

Jhn 9:16Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them.

Jhn 9:17

Jhn 9:17So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

Jhn 9:18

Jhn 9:18The Jews[fn] did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight

Jhn 9:19

Jhn 9:19and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

Jhn 9:20

Jhn 9:20His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

Jhn 9:21

Jhn 9:21But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”

Jhn 9:22

Jhn 9:22(His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus[fn] to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.)

Jhn 9:23

Jhn 9:23Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

Jhn 9:24

Jhn 9:24So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

Jhn 9:25

Jhn 9:25He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”

Jhn 9:26

Jhn 9:26They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

Jhn 9:27

Jhn 9:27He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”

Jhn 9:28

Jhn 9:28And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

Jhn 9:29

Jhn 9:29We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”

Jhn 9:30

Jhn 9:30The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.

Jhn 9:31

Jhn 9:31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.

Jhn 9:32

Jhn 9:32Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.

Jhn 9:33

Jhn 9:33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

Jhn 9:34

Jhn 9:34They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.

Jhn 9:35

Jhn 9:35Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”[fn]

Jhn 9:36

Jhn 9:36He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”

Jhn 9:37

Jhn 9:37Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.”

Jhn 9:38

Jhn 9:38He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.

Jhn 9:39

Jhn 9:39Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”

Jhn 9:40

Jhn 9:40Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

Jhn 9:41

Jhn 9:41Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt;[fn] but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.

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ESV Footnotes

(9:18)

Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verse 22

(9:22)

Greek him

(9:35)

Some manuscripts the Son of God

(9:41)

Greek you would not have sin

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