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          DASV: John 9    

1 As Jesus passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.
2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his
parents, that he was born blind?"
3 Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned;
it happened so that the works of God might be revealed in him.
4 We must do the works of him who sent me, while it is day;
the night comes, when no one can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
6 After having said this, he spat on the ground, made mud
with the saliva, and smeared the mud on his eyes.
7 He told him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is
translated, "Sent"). So he went away, washed and returned
seeing.

8 Then the neighbors and those who saw him before, when he
was a beggar, asked, "Is not this the man who used to sit
and beg?"
9 Others said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he looks
like him." But he insisted, "I am he."
10 So they kept asking him, "How then were your eyes opened?"
11 He answered, "The man that is called Jesus made mud,
and smeared it on my eyes, and told me, 'Go to Siloam,
and wash'. So I went and washed, and I received my sight."
12 They asked him, "Where is he?" He responded, "I don't
know."

13 They brought to the Pharisees the one who had formerly
been blind.
14 Now the day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes
was the Sabbath.
15 Then the Pharisees also asked him how he received his
sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed,
and now I see."
16 Some of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God,
because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." But others said,
"How can a man who is a sinner do such miraculous signs?"
There was division among them.
17 So they asked the blind man again, "What do you say
about him, in that he opened your eyes?" He replied,
"He is a prophet."

18 The Jews refused to believe that he had been blind,
and had received his sight, until they called the
parents of the man who had received his sight.
19 They asked them, "Is this your son, who you allege
was born blind? How then is he able to see now?"
20 His parents replied, "We know that this is our son,
and that he was born blind.
21 But how he now is able to see, we don't know, nor
do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him, he is of age.
He can speak for himself."
22 His parents said these things because they were
afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed
that if anyone should confess Jesus to be the Messiah,
he would be put out of the synagogue.
23 That is why his parents said, "He is of age, ask him."

24 So they called the man who was blind a second time,
and told him, "Give glory to God. We know that this
man is a sinner."
25 He answered, "Whether he is a sinner, I don't know;
one thing I do know: that once I was blind, now I see."
26 They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he
open your eyes?"
27 He replied, "I told you already, and you didn't listen.
Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want
to become his disciples?"
28 Then they ridiculed him saying, "You are his 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."
30 The man answered, "Why, this is amazing, that you
don't know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if
anyone is a worshipper of God and does his will, God
listens to him.
32 Never since the world began has it ever been heard
that someone opened the eyes of a man born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
34 They answered, "You were totally born in sins, and
you dare teach us?" Then they threw him out.

35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. After finding
him, he asked, "Do you believe on the Son of Man?"
36 He asked, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?"
37 Jesus told him, "You have seen him and he is talking
with you."
38 He said, "Lord, I believe." And he worshipped him.
39 Then Jesus said, "For judgment I came into this world,
that those who do not see may see; and those who see
may become blind."
40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these
things, and said to him, "Certainly we are not blind,
are we?"
41 Jesus said to them, "If you had been blind, you would
have no sin; but now you claim, 'We see,' so your sin
remains."

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