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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 ESV</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><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="../">ESV</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">English Standard Version</td><td width="1%" valign="top"><a href="/p/esv/nas/john/9.shtml" style="color:#001320" title="Parallel Chapters"> Par ▾ </a></tr></table></div></a><div class="chap"><p class="heading">Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind</p><p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-1.htm"><b>1</b></a></span>As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-2.htm"><b>2</b></a></span>And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-3.htm"><b>3</b></a></span>Jesus answered, <span class="woc">“It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but 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="woc">We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; 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="woc">As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-6.htm"><b>6</b></a></span>Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man’s eyes with the mud <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>and said to him, <span class="woc">“Go, wash in the pool of Siloam”</span> (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, “Is this not the 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 said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, <span class="woc">‘Go to Siloam and wash.’</span> So I went and washed and received my sight.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”</p> <p class="regular"><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 formerly been blind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” <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.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was a division among them. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>The Jews<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verse 22">a</a></sup></span> 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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-19.htm"><b>19</b></a></span>and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-20.htm"><b>20</b></a></span>His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-21.htm"><b>21</b></a></span>But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. 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 these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek him">b</a></sup></span> to be Christ, he was to be put out of the synagogue.) <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-23.htm"><b>23</b></a></span>Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-24.htm"><b>24</b></a></span>So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-25.htm"><b>25</b></a></span>He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-26.htm"><b>26</b></a></span>They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-27.htm"><b>27</b></a></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 class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-28.htm"><b>28</b></a></span>And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but 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 has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-30.htm"><b>30</b></a></span>The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and 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, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-32.htm"><b>32</b></a></span>Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened 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.” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-34.htm"><b>34</b></a></span>They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.</p> <p class="regular"><span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-35.htm"><b>35</b></a></span>Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, <span class="woc">“Do you believe in the Son of Man?”<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Some manuscripts the Son of God">c</a></sup></span></span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-36.htm"><b>36</b></a></span>He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-37.htm"><b>37</b></a></span>Jesus said to him, <span class="woc">“You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-38.htm"><b>38</b></a></span>He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-39.htm"><b>39</b></a></span>Jesus said, <span class="woc">“For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.”</span> <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-40.htm"><b>40</b></a></span>Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” <span class="reftext"><a href="http://biblehub.com/john/9-41.htm"><b>41</b></a></span>Jesus said to them, <span class="woc">“If you were blind, you would have no guilt;<span class="footnote"><sup><a href="#footnotes" title="Greek you would not have sin">d</a></sup></span> but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.</span></p><A name="footnotes"></a><hr size="1" color="DDEEFF"><span class="mainfootnotes"><span class="mainfootnoteshdg">Footnotes:</span><br><span class="footnotesbot">a</span> <span class="fnverse">18</span> Greek <i language="Greek">Ioudaioi</i> probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verse 22<br /><span class="footnotesbot">b</span> <span class="fnverse">22</span> Greek <i>him</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">c</span> <span class="fnverse">35</span> Some manuscripts <i><span class="catch-word">the Son</span> of God</i><br /><span class="footnotesbot">d</span> <span class="fnverse">41</span> Greek <i><span class="catch-word">you would</span> not have sin</i><br /></span></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">ESV Text Edition® (2016).<br /><br />The ESV® Bible (The Holy Bible, English Standard Version®) copyright © 2001 by <a href="http://www.crossway.org/home/esv/">Crossway Bibles</a>, a publishing ministry of Good News Publishers. 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