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Then he went and washed and came back able to see. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">8</span>The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to ask, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">9</span>Some were saying, “It is he.” Others were saying, “No, but it is someone like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">10</span>But they kept asking him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">11</span>He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ Then I went and washed and received my sight.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">12</span>They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">The Pharisees Investigate the Healing</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">13</span>They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">14</span>Now it was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">15</span>Then the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">16</span>Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not observe the sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And they were divided. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">17</span>So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened.” He said, “He is a prophet.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">18</span>The Jews 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 </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">19</span>and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">20</span>His parents answered, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">21</span>but we do not know how it is that now he sees, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">22</span>His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30724c" title="See footnote c">c</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote c">c</a>]</span> to be the Messiah<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30724d" title="See footnote d">d</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote d">d</a>]</span> would be put out of the synagogue. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">23</span>Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”</span></p> <p><span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">24</span>So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">25</span>He answered, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">26</span>They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">27</span>He 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?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">28</span>Then they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">29</span>We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">30</span>The man answered, “Here is an astonishing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">31</span>We know that God does not listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys his will. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">32</span>Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">33</span>If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">34</span>They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you trying to teach us?” And they drove him out.</span></p> <h3><span id="en" class="text">Spiritual Blindness</span></h3><p><span class="text"><span class="versenum">35</span>Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30737e" title="See footnote e">e</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote e">e</a>]</span> </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">36</span>He answered, “And who is he, sir?<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30738f" title="See footnote f">f</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote f">f</a>]</span> Tell me, so that I may believe in him.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">37</span>Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">38</span>He said, “Lord,<span data-fn='#fen' class='footnote' data-link='[<a href="#fen-NRSVCE-30740g" title="See footnote g">g</a>]'>[<a href="#fen" xtitle="See footnote g">g</a>]</span> I believe.” And he worshiped him. </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">39</span>Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind.” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">40</span>Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, “Surely we are not blind, are we?” </span> <span id="en" class="text"><span class="versenum">41</span>Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.</span></p> <A name="fen"></a><div class="footnotes"><h4>Footnotes</h4><ol><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 9:4">John 9:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>I</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 9:4">John 9:4</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>us</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 9:22">John 9:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Gk <i>him</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 9:22">John 9:22</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Or <i>the Christ</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 9:35">John 9:35</a> <span class='footnote-text'>Other ancient authorities read <i>the Son of God</i></span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 9:36">John 9:36</a> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Sir</i> and <i>Lord</i> translate the same Greek word</span></li><li id="fen"><a hlef="#en" xtitle="Go to John 9:38">John 9:38</a> <span class='footnote-text'><i>Sir</i> and <i>Lord</i> translate the same Greek word</span></li></ol></div> <!--end of footnotes--></div></div></div></div></div> </div> </div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version Bible: Catholic Edition, copyright © 1989, 1993 National Council of the Churches of Christ in the United States of America. 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