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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd"><html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" /><meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"><title>John 9 Geneva Bible</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="/chapnew2.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="../spec.css" type="text/css" media="Screen" /><link rel="stylesheet" href="/print.css" type="text/css" media="Print" /></head> <script async src="https://www.googletagmanager.com/gtag/js?id=G-LR4HSKRP2H"></script> <script> window.dataLayer = window.dataLayer || []; function gtag(){dataLayer.push(arguments);} gtag('js', new Date()); gtag('config', 'G-LR4HSKRP2H'); </script><body><div id="fx"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx2"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="30" scrolling="no" src="../cmenus/john/9.htm" align="left" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div><div id="blnk"></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable"><tr><td><div id="fx5"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" id="fx6"><tr><td><iframe width="100%" height="245" scrolling="no" src="../topmenuchap/john/9-1.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" class="maintable3"><tr><td><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center" id="announce"><tr><td><div id="l1"><div id="breadcrumbs"><a href="http://biblehub.com">Bible</a> > <a href="../">Geneva Bible</a> > John 9</div><div id="anc"><iframe src="/anc.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></div><div id="anc2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="/anc2.htm" width="100%" height="27" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table></div></div></td></tr></table><div id="movebox2"><table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><iframe src="../menu.htm" width="100%" height="48" scrolling="no" frameborder="0"></iframe></td></tr></table><table border="0" align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr><td><div id="topheading"><a href="../john/8.htm" title="John 8">◄</a> John 9 <a href="../john/10.htm" title="John 10">►</a></div></td></tr></table></div><div align="center" class="maintable2"><table border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" align="center"><tr><td><div id="leftbox"><div class="padleft"><div class="vheading"><table width="100%"><tr><td width="99%" valign="top">Geneva Bible of 1587</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/parallel/john/9-1.htm" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Verses"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><A name="2"></a><p class="hdg">Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>And as Iesus passed by, he sawe a man which was blinde from his birth. <A name="3"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sinne, this man, or his parents, that he was borne blinde? <A name="4"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Iesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the workes of God should be shewed on him. <A name="5"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span>I must worke the workes of him that sent me, while it is day: the night commeth when no man can worke. <A name="6"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span>As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. <A name="7"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Assoone as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spettle, and anointed the eyes of the blinde with the clay, <A name="8"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>And sayd vnto him, Go wash in the poole of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came againe seeing. <A name="9"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>Nowe the neighbours and they that had seene him before, when he was blinde, sayd, Is not this he that sate and begged? <A name="10"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Some said, This is he: and other sayd, He is like him: but he himselfe sayd, I am he. <A name="11"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Therefore they sayd vnto him, Howe were thine eyes opened? <A name="12"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He answered, and sayd, The man that is called Iesus, made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and sayde vnto me, Goe to the poole of Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and receiued sight. <A name="13"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>Then they sayd vnto him, Where is he? He sayd, I can not tell.<p> <A name="14"></a><p class="hdg">The Pharisees Investigate the Healing<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They brought to the Pharises him that was once blinde. <A name="15"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>And it was the Sabbath day, when Iesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. <A name="16"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Then againe the Pharises also asked him, how he had receiued sight; hee sayd vnto them, He layd clay vpon mine eyes, & I washed, and doe see. <A name="17"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Then said some of the Pharises, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others sayd, Howe can a man that is a sinner, doe such miracles? and there was a dissension among them. <A name="18"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then spake they vnto the blinde againe, What sayest thou of him, because he hath opened thine eyes? And he sayd, He is a Prophet.<p> <A name="19"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>Then the Iewes did not beleeue him (that he had bene blinde, and receiued his sight) vntill they had called the parents of him that had receiued sight. <A name="20"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>And they asked them, saying, Is this your sonne, whom ye say was borne blinde? How doeth he nowe see then? <A name="21"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>His parents answered them, and sayd, We know that this is our sonne, & that he was borne blinde: <A name="22"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But by what meanes hee nowe seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes, can we not tell: he is olde ynough: aske him: hee shall answere for himselfe. <A name="23"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>These wordes spake his parents, because they feared the Iewes: for the Iewes had ordeined already, that if any man did confesse that he was Christ, he should be excommunicate out of the Synagogue. <A name="24"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Therefore sayde his parents, Hee is olde ynough: aske him.<p> <A name="25"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>Then againe called they the man that had bene blinde, and sayd vnto him, Giue glory vnto God: we know that this man is a sinner. <A name="26"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>Then he answered, and sayd, Whether hee be a sinner or no, I can not tell: one thing I know, that I was blinde, and nowe I see. <A name="27"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then sayd they to him againe, What did he to thee? howe opened he thine eyes? <A name="28"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>Hee answered them, I haue tolde you already, and yee haue not heard it: wherefore would yee heare it againe? will yee also be his disciples? <A name="29"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then reuiled they him, and sayd, Be thou his disciple: we be Moses disciples. <A name="30"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>We know that God spake with Moses: but this man we know not from whence he is. <A name="31"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The man answered, and sayde vnto them, Doutlesse, this is a marueilous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. <A name="32"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him heareth he. <A name="33"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Since the world began, was it not heard, that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blinde. <A name="34"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If this man were not of God, hee could haue done nothing. <A name="35"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>They answered, and sayd vnto him, Thou art altogether borne in sinnes, and doest thou teach vs? so they cast him out.<p> <A name="36"></a><p class="hdg">Spiritual Blindness<p><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Iesus heard that they had cast him out: and when he had found him, he sayd vnto him, Doest thou beleeue in the Sonne of God? <A name="37"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>He answered, and sayd, Who is he, Lord, that I might beleeue in him? <A name="38"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>And Iesus sayd vnto him, Both thou hast seene him, and he it is that talketh with thee. <A name="39"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Then he sayd, Lord, I beleeue, and worshipped him. <A name="40"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>And Iesus sayd, I am come vnto iudgement into this world, that they which see not, might see: and that they which see, might be made blinde. <A name="41"></a><span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>And some of the Pharises which were with him, heard these things, & sayd vnto him, Are we blinde also? <span class="reftext"><a href="/john/9-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Iesus sayd vnto them, If ye were blinde, ye should not haue sinne: but nowe ye say, We see: therefore your sinne remaineth.<p><br /></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">Geneva Bible of 1587<br><br>Section Headings Courtesy <a href="https://berean.bible">Berean Bible</i><span class="p"><br /><br /></span></div></div></div></div></td></tr></table></div><div id="left"><a href="../john/8.htm" onmouseover='lft.src="/leftgif.png"' onmouseout='lft.src="/left.png"' title="John 8"><img src="/left.png" name="lft" border="0" alt="John 8" /></a></div><div id="right"><a href="../john/10.htm" onmouseover='rght.src="/rightgif.png"' onmouseout='rght.src="/right.png"' title="John 10"><img src="/right.png" name="rght" border="0" alt="John 10" /></a></div><div id="botleft"><a href="#" onmouseover='botleft.src="/botleftgif.png"' onmouseout='botleft.src="/botleft.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botleft.png" name="botleft" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="botright"><a href="#" onmouseover='botright.src="/botrightgif.png"' onmouseout='botright.src="/botright.png"' title="Top of Page"><img src="/botright.png" name="botright" border="0" alt="Top of Page" /></a></div><div id="bot"><iframe width="100%" height="1500" scrolling="no" src="/botmenubhchapnoad.htm" frameborder="0"></iframe></div></td></tr></table></div></body></html>