A Blind Man Sees
91As Jesus was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that God's works might be revealed in connection with him. 4I[] must do the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming when no one can work. 5As long as I am in the world, I am the Light of the World.” 6After saying this, Jesus spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and spread the mud on the man's eyes. 7“Go,” Jesus told him, “wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
8His neighbors and those who had seen him before this as a beggar asked, “Isn't this the one who used to sit and beg?”
9Some said, “He is the one.” Others said, “No, but he looks like him.” He kept saying, “I am the one!”
10So they asked him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11He answered, “The man who is called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
12“Where is he?” they asked.
“I don't know,” he said.
13They brought this man who had been blind to the Pharisees. 14Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15So the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight.
“He put mud on my eyes,” the man told them. “I washed, and now I see.”
16Then some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath.” Others were saying, “How can a sinful man work such miraculous signs?”
There was division among them, 17so they said to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?”
The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
18The Jews still did not believe that he had been blind and received his sight, until they summoned the parents of the man who had received his sight. 19They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How is it, then, that he can see now?”
20“We know that this is our son,” his parents answered, “and that he was born blind. 21But we do not know how he can see now, or who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is old enough. He will speak for himself.” 22His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed that Jesus was the Christ would be put out of the synagogue. 23That is why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”
