The Sixth Sign: Healing a Man Born Blind
1As he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth.
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“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” Jesus answered. “This came about so that God’s works9:3 Jn 5:36; 6:28–29; Rm 14:20; Heb 3:9; Rv 15:3 might be displayed in him.
8His neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, “Isn’t this the one who used to sit begging?”
9Some said, “He’s the one.” Others were saying, “No, but he looks like him.”
He kept saying, “I’m the one.”
10So they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened?”
12“Where is he?” they asked.
“I don’t know,” he said.
The Healed Man’s Testimony
15Then the Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight.
“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”
17Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?”
“He’s a prophet,”9:17 Jn 6:14 he said.
18The Jews did not believe this about him — that he was blind and received sight — until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.
19They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
20“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered.
21“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”
22His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah,9:22 Mt 1:17; Eph 5:2 he would be banned from the synagogue.
23This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”
25He answered, “Whether or not he’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”
26Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27“I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”
28They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’s9:28 Ps 77:20; Mt 8:4; Heb 3:2 disciples.
29We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man — we don’t know where he’s from.”9:29 Jn 7:27–28; 8:14
30“This is an amazing thing!” the man told them. “You don’t know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.
31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners,9:31 Jb 27:9; Ps 66:18; Pr 28:9; Is 1:15; 1Jn 3:21 but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will,9:31 Eph 1:9 he listens to him.9:31 Ps 34:15,16; 145:19; Pr 15:20; Jms 5:16–18; 1Jn 5:14–15
Spiritual Blindness
37Jesus answered, “You have seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
38“I believe, Lord!” he said, and he worshiped him.
40Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and asked him, “We aren’t blind too, are we?”
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