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| The Book of John 9 | ||||||||||||||||
| The Weymouth New Testament Online Bible (WEY) | ||||||||||||||||
| John 9:1 | As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:2 | So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind?" | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:3 | "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. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:4 | We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:5 | When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:6 | 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, | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:7 | "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" the name means `Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:8 | 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?" | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:9 | "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." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:10 | "How then were your eyes opened?" they asked. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:11 | "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." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:12 | "Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:13 | They brought him to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:14 | Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's eyes was the Sabbath. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:15 | 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." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:16 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:17 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:18 | 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, | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:19 | "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?" | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:20 | "We know," replied the parents, "that this is our son and that he was born blind; | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:21 | 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." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:22 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:23 | That was why his parents said, "He is of full age: ask him himself." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:24 | 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." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:25 | "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." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:26 | "What did he do to you?" they asked; "how did he open your eyes?" | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:27 | "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?" | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:28 | Then they railed at him, and said, "You are that man's disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:29 | We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:30 | "Why, this is marvellous!" the man replied; "you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes! | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:31 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:32 | 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. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:33 | Had that man not come from God, he could have done nothing." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:34 | "You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin, and do *you* teach *us*?" And they put him out of the synagogue. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:35 | Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?" | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:36 | "Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may believe in Him." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:37 | "You have seen Him," said Jesus; "and not only so: He is now speaking to you." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:38 | "I believe, Sir," he said. And he threw himself at His feet. | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:39 | "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." | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:40 | These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, "Are *we* also blind?" | |||||||||||||||
| John 9:41 | "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!" | |||||||||||||||
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