John 9
1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.
2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"
3 Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.
"Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.
4 I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.
5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him,
7 and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.
"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" --the name means 'Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.
8 Therefore the neighbors and those who saw that he was blind before said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”
His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"
9 Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”
"Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man."
10 They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
"How then were your eyes opened?" they asked.
11 He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”
"He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight."
12 Then they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”
"Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.
13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
They brought him to the Pharisees--the man who had been blind.
14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.
Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's eyes was the Sabbath.
15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied, "and I washed, and now I can see."
16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” So there was division among them.
This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.
17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? --for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied.
18 The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
The Jews, however, did not believe the statement concerning him--that he had been blind and had obtained his sight--until they called his parents and asked them,
19 and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
"Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?"
20 His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
"We know," replied the parents, "that this is our son and that he was born blind;
21 but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”
but how it is that he can now see or who has opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him himself; he is of full age; he himself will give his own account of it."
22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
Such was their answer, because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already settled among themselves that if any one should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be excluded from the synagogue.
23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
That was why his parents said, "He is of full age: ask him himself."
24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
A second time therefore they called the man who had been blind, and said, "Give God the praise: we know that that man is a sinner."
25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
"Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know," he replied; "one thing I know--that I was once blind and that now I can see."
26 They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
"What did he do to you?" they asked; "how did he open your eyes?"
27 He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”
"I have told you already," he replied, "and you did not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also mean to be disciples of his?"
28 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”
We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from."
30 The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
"Why, this is marvellous!" the man replied; "you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!
31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him.
We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.
32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. (aiōn g165)
From the beginning of the world such a thing was never heard of as that any one should open the eyes of a man blind from his birth. (aiōn g165)
33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
Had that man not come from God, he could have done nothing."
34 They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.
"You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin, and do you teach us?" And they put him out of the synagogue.
35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
36 He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
"Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."
37 Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”
"You have seen Him," said Jesus; "and not only so: He is now speaking to you."
38 He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.
"I believe, Sir," he said. And he threw himself at His feet.
39 Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”
"I came into this world," said Jesus, "to judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may become blind."
40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, "Are we also blind?"
41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
"If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin; but as a matter of fact you boast that you see. So your sin remains!"
