1As he walked along, he saw a man who had been blind since birth.
2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that God’s works could be shown in him.
4While it is day, I must do the works of the one who sent me. 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, he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes.
7Then he told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means "Sent"). So the man went, washed, and came back able to see.
8His neighbors and those who had previously seen him begging, because he was blind, asked, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
9Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he looks like him.” The man himself said, “I am the one.”
10So they asked him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11He answered, "A man named Jesus made some mud, put it on my eyes, and told me, 'Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and then I could see."
12Then they asked him, "Where is this man?" He said, "I don't know."
13They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.
14It was on a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened the man's eyes.
15So the Pharisees also asked him again how he got his sight back. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and now I see."
16Some of the Pharisees said, "This man isn't from God, because he doesn't keep the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a sinner perform such miracles?" So they were divided.
17Then they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?" He said, "He is a prophet."
18The Jewish leaders, however, didn't believe that he had been blind and then received his sight until they called his parents,
19and asked them, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How is it that he can now see?"
20His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind.
21But we don't know how he can see now, and we don't know who opened his eyes. He is an adult, ask him. He can speak for himself."
22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. The Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue.
23That is why his parents said, "He is an adult; ask him."
24So they called the man who had been blind a second time and told him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."
25He replied, "I don't know if he is a sinner. But one thing I do know is that I was blind, and now I see."
26Again they asked him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
27He answered them, "I already told you, and you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his followers too, do you?"
28Then they insulted him and said, "You are his follower, but we are followers of Moses.
29We know that God spoke to Moses. But as for this man, we don't know where he comes from."
30The man answered them, "How amazing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes."
31We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone worships God and does his will, God listens to them.
32Since the world began, no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.
33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
34They replied to him, “You were born completely in sin, and are you trying to teach us?” They threw him out.
35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. When he found him, he asked, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
36He answered, “Who is he, Lord, so that I may believe in him?”
37Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and he is the one speaking with you.”
38He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshipped him.
39Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, so that those who don’t see may see, and those who do see may become blind.”
40Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and asked him, “Are we also blind?”
41Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you claim, ‘We see.’ Therefore, your sin remains.