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JOHN 9
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even know him. I know him. If I said otherwise, I would be as great a liar as
you! But I do know him and obey him. 56 Your father Abraham rejoiced as he
looked forward to my coming. He saw it and was glad.”
57 The people said, “You aren’t even fifty years old. How can you say you
have seen Abraham?*”
58 Jesus answered, “I tell you the truth, before Abraham was even born, I
Am!*” 59 At that point they picked up stones to throw at him. But Jesus was
hidden from them and left the Temple.
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from
birth. 2 “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind?
Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”
3 “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This
happened so the power of God could be seen in him. 4 We must quickly carry
out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us.* The night is coming, and
then no one can work. 5 But while I am here in the world, I am the light of
the world.”
6 Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the
mud over the blind man’s eyes. 7 He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool
of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came
back seeing!
8 His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each
other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said he was, and
others said, “No, he just looks like him!”
But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”
10 They asked, “Who healed you? What happened?”
11 He told them, “The man they call Jesus made mud and spread it over
my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.’ So I went
and washed, and now I can see!”
12 “Where is he now?” they asked.
“I don’t know,” he replied.
13 Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees, 14 because
it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the mud and healed him. 15 The
Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, “He put the mud over
my eyes, and when I washed it away, I could see!”
16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man Jesus is not from God, for he is
working on the Sabbath.” Others said, “But how could an ordinary sinner
do such miraculous signs?” So there was a deep division of opinion among
them.
17 Then the Pharisees again questioned the man who had been blind and
demanded, “What’s your opinion about this man who healed you?”
The man replied, “I think he must be a prophet.”
18 The Jewish leaders still refused to believe the man had been blind and
could now see, so they called in his parents. 19 They asked them, “Is this your
son? Was he born blind? If so, how can he now see?”
20 His parents replied, “We know this is our son and that he was born blind,
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8:57 Some manuscripts read How can you say Abraham has seen you? 8:58 Or before Abraham was
even born, I have always been alive; Greek reads before Abraham was, I am. See Exod 3:14. 9:4 Other
manuscripts read I must quickly carry out the tasks assigned me by the one who sent me; still others
read We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent me.
