John 9

A Man Born Blind Receives Sight

8His neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar asked, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he looks like him.” The man kept saying, “I am the one.” 10So they asked him, “How were your eyes opened?” 11He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went, washed, and received my sight.” 12They asked him, “Where is this man?” He said, “I do not know.”

The Pharisees Investigate

13They brought the man who had formerly been blind to the Pharisees. 14The day when Jesus made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. 15So the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He told them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and now I see.” 16Some Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” So they were divided. 17They asked the man who had been blind again, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?” He answered, “He is a prophet.” 18The Jewish authorities did not believe that he had been blind and received his sight until they summoned the parents of the man who now saw. 19They asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How, then, does he now see?” 20His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21But we do not know how he now sees, or who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself.” 22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities, who had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus as Messiah would be put out of the synagogue. 23That is why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”