Christ heals a man blind from birth
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✭And as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 2 📚✭And his disciples asked him, saying, “Teacher, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 📚✭Jesus answered, “Not because either this man or his parents sinned, but that the works of God might be revealed in him. 4 📚✭While it is day, I must do the works of him who sent me. The night is coming, when no one can work. 5 📚As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world”.
6 📚✭When he had said this, he spit on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7 📚and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which, being translated, means Sent). So he went away, washed, and came seeing.
8 📚Therefore the neighbours and those who previously had seen that he was blind, said, “Is not this the one who sat and begged?”
9 Some said, “This is he”; others said, “He is like him”. But he said, “I am the man”.
10 📚Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11 📚He answered and said, “A man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ And I went and washed, and I got my sight”.
12 📚Then they said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know”.
13 📚They brought the one who had previously been blind to the Pharisees✭. 14 📚And it was the Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
15 📚Then once more the Pharisees asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and can see”.
16 📚Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath✭”. Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such miraculous signs?” And there was a division among them.
17 📚✭They said to the blind man again, “What do you say about the one who opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet”.
18 📚✭But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight. 19 📚And they asked them, saying, “Is this your son who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”
20 ✭His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. 21 But we do not know by what means he now sees, and we do not know who opened his eyes. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself”.
22 📚His parents spoke these words because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed that if any man confessed that he was Christ✭, he would be put out of the synagogue✭. 23 📚Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him”.
24 📚✭Then once more they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give God the praise. We know that this man is a sinner”.
25 📚✭He answered and said, “I do not know whether he is a sinner or not. One thing I know: I was blind, now I see”.
26 ✭Then 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 did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”
28 📚✭Then they insulted him, and said, “You are his disciple, but we are the disciples of Moses. 29 📚✭We know that God spoke to Moses. As for this fellow, we don’t know from where He came”.
30 📚✭The man answered and said to them, “Why here is a marvellous thing! You don’t know from where He is, and yet He opened my eyes. 31 📚✭Now we know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is a worshipper of God and does His will, He hears him. 32 📚✭Since the world began it has not been heard that any man opened the eyes of one who was born blind. 33 📚✭If this man were not from God, he could do nothing”.
34 📚✭They answered and said to him, “You were utterly born in sins, and do you teach us?” And they drove him out.
Spiritual blindness
35 📚✭Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
36 📚✭He answered and said, “Who is he, Lord, that I might believe in him?”
37 📚✭And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him and it is he who is talking with you”.
38 📚✭And he said, “Lord, I believe”. And he worshipped him.
39 📚✭And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see might see, and that those who see might be made blind”.
40 📚✭And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words 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’, so your sin remains.