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In these lay many invalids—blind, lame, and paralysed.
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A Man Born Blind Receives Sight
As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth.
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His disciples asked him, ‘Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?’
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Jesus answered, ‘Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him.
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He answered, ‘The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and said to me, “Go to Siloam and wash.” Then I went and washed and received my sight.’
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The Pharisees Investigate the Healing
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.
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Then the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He said to them, ‘He put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I see.’
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So they said again to the blind man, ‘What do you say about him? It was your eyes he opened.’ He said, ‘He is a prophet.’
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The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight
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and asked them, ‘Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?’
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His parents answered, ‘We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
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So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they said to him, ‘Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.’
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He answered, ‘I do not know whether he is a sinner. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.’
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Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind.
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Spiritual Blindness
Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said, ‘Do you believe in the Son of Man?’
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Jesus said, ‘I came into this world for judgement so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind.’
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Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, ‘Surely we are not blind, are we?’
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Jesus said to them, ‘If you were blind, you would not have sin. But now that you say, “We see”, your sin remains.
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Others were saying, ‘These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?’
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But some of them said, ‘Could not he who opened the eyes of the blind man have kept this man from dying?’
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‘He has blinded their eyes and hardened their heart, so that they might not look with their eyes, and understand with their heart and turn— and I would heal them.’
