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9:1  As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been born blind.
9:2  His followers asked him, “Teacher, whose sin caused this man to be born blind—his own sin or his parents’ sin?”
9:3  Jesus answered, “It is not this man’s sin or his parents’ sin that made him blind. This man was born blind so that God’s power could be shown in him.
9:4  While it is daytime, we must continue doing the work of the One who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
9:5  While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
9:6  After Jesus said this, he spit on the ground and made some mud with it and put the mud on the man’s eyes.
9:7  Then he told the man, “Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam.” (Siloam means Sent.) So the man went, washed, and came back seeing.
9:8  The neighbors and some people who had earlier seen this man begging said, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”
9:9  Some said, “He is the one,” but others said, “No, he only looks like him.” The man himself said, “I am the man.”
9:10  They asked, “How did you get your sight?”
9:11  He answered, “The man named Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. Then he told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
9:12  They asked him, “Where is this man?” “I don’t know,” he answered.
9:13  Then the people took to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
9:14  The day Jesus had made mud and healed his eyes was a Sabbath day.
9:15  So now the Pharisees asked the man, “How did you get your sight?” He answered, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and now I see.”
9:16  So some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man does not keep the Sabbath day, so he is not from God.” But others said, “A man who is a sinner can’t do miracles like these.” So they could not agree with each other.
9:17  They asked the man again, “What do you say about him since it was your eyes he opened?” The man answered, “He is a prophet.”
9:18  These leaders did not believe that he had been blind and could now see again. So they sent for the man’s parents
9:19  and asked them, “Is this your son who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”
9:20  His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
9:21  But we don’t know how he can now see. We don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
9:22  His parents said this because they were afraid of the elders, who had already decided that anyone who said Jesus was the Christ would be avoided.
9:23  That is why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”
9:24  So for the second time, they called the man who had been blind. They said, “You should give God the glory by telling the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.”
9:25  He answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.”
9:26  They asked, “What did he do to you? How did he make you see again?”
9:27  He answered, “I already told you, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his followers, too?”
9:28  Then they insulted him and said, “You are his follower, but we are followers of Moses.
9:29  We know that God spoke to Moses, but we don’t even know where this man comes from.”
9:30  The man answered, “This is a very strange thing. You don’t know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
9:31  We all know that God does not listen to sinners, but he listens to anyone who worships and obeys him.
9:32  Nobody has ever heard of anyone giving sight to a man born blind.
9:33  If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
9:34  They answered, “You were born full of sin! Are you trying to teach us?” And they threw him out.
9:35  When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, Jesus found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
9:36  He asked, “Who is the Son of Man, sir, so that I can believe in him?”
9:37  Jesus said to him, “You have seen him. The Son of Man is the one talking with you.”
9:38  He said, “Lord, I believe!” Then the man worshiped Jesus.
9:39  Jesus said, “I came into this world so that the world could be judged. I came so that the blind would see and so that those who see will become blind.”
9:40  Some of the Pharisees who were nearby heard Jesus say this and asked, “Are you saying we are blind, too?”
9:41  Jesus said, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin. But since you keep saying you see, your guilt remains.”