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John 9
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John 9 . 1
1 Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth,CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:1
John 9 . 2
2 and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”IPExodus 20:5CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:2
John 9 . 3
3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:3
John 9 . 4
4 While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:4
John 9 . 5
5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”IPIsaiah 9:1-2CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:5
John 9 . 6
6 When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:6
John 9 . 7
7 Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.IP2 Kings 5:10-13CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:7
John 9 . 8
8 At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:8
John 9 . 9
9 Some claimed that he was, but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “I am the one.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:9
John 9 . 10
10 “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:10
John 9 . 11
11 He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:11
John 9 . 12
12 “Where is He?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:12
John 9 . 13
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:13
John 9 . 14
14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:14
John 9 . 15
15 So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:15
John 9 . 16
16 Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:16
John 9 . 17
17 So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:17
John 9 . 18
18 The Jews still did not believe that the man had been blind and had received his sight until they summoned his parentsCJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:18
John 9 . 19
19 and asked, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he can now see?”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:19
John 9 . 20
20 His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:20
John 9 . 21
21 But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:21
John 9 . 22
22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:22
John 9 . 23
23 That was why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:23
John 9 . 24
24 So a second time they called for the man who had been blind and said, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”IPJoshua 7:19CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:24
John 9 . 25
25 He answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. There is one thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:25
John 9 . 26
26 “What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:26
John 9 . 27
27 He replied, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:27
John 9 . 28
28 Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:28
John 9 . 29
29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:29
John 9 . 30
30 “That is remarkable indeed!” the man said. “You do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:30
John 9 . 31
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships Him and does His will.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:31
John 9 . 32
32 Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:32
John 9 . 33
33 If this man were not from God, He could do no such thing.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:33
John 9 . 34
34 They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.IPPsalms 51:5CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:34
John 9 . 35
35 When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, He found the man and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:35
John 9 . 36
36 “Who is He, Sir?” he replied. “Tell me so that I may believe in Him.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:36
John 9 . 37
37 “You have already seen Him,” Jesus answered. “He is the One speaking with you.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:37
John 9 . 38
38 “Lord, I believe,” he said. And he worshiped Jesus.CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:38
John 9 . 39
39 Then Jesus declared, “For judgment I have come into this world, so that the blind may see and those who see may become blind.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:39
John 9 . 40
40 Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:40
John 9 . 41
41 “If you were blind,” Jesus replied, “you would not be guilty of sin. But since you claim you can see, your guilt remains.”CJohn 09:01-41TOSKJohn 9:41