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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 NIV</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="../">NIV</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 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">New International Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/niv/esv/john/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div><div class="chap"><p class="sectionhead">Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span><span class="red">“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,”</span> said Jesus, <span class="red">“but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-4.htm"><b>4</b></a></span><span class="red">As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-5.htm"><b>5</b></a></span><span class="red">While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span><span class="red">“Go,”</span> he told him, <span class="red">“wash in the Pool of Siloam”</span> (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>Some claimed that he was.</p><p class="reg">Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”</p><p class="reg">But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>“Where is this man?” they asked him.</p><p class="reg">“I don’t know,” he said.</p> <p class="sectionhead">The Pharisees Investigate the Healing</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”</p><p class="reg">But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”</p><p class="reg">The man replied, “He is a prophet.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>“Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>“We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-22.htm"><b>22</b></a></span>His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></span>He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses! <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-29.htm"><b>29</b></a></span>We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-31.htm"><b>31</b></a></span>We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-33.htm"><b>33</b></a></span>If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.</p> <p class="sectionhead">Spiritual Blindness</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, <span class="red">“Do you believe in the Son of Man?”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>“Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Jesus said, <span class="red">“You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Jesus said, <span class="nivfootnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some early manuscripts do not have Then the man said . . . 39 Jesus said,">a</a></sup></span> <span class="red">“For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind will see and those who see will become blind.”</span></p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Jesus said, <span class="red">“If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin; but now that you claim you can see, your guilt remains.</span></p><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><A name="footnotes"></a><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="nivfootnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">39</span> <span class="footnotebot">Some early manuscripts do not have <i>Then the man said . . . <span class="fnref">39</span>Jesus said,</i></span><br><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center"><p class="ntext"><a href="http://niv.scripturetext.com/version.htm">New International Version</a> (NIV)</p><p class="ntext2">Holy Bible, New International Version&reg, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by <a href="http://biblica.com">Biblica, Inc.</a>® Used by permission. 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