John 9:5-15

5 While I am in the world, I am the light for the world." 1
6 After he said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the spittle; he rubbed the mud on the man's eyes
7 and told him, "Go and wash your face in the Pool of Siloam." (This name means "Sent.") So the man went, washed his face, and came back seeing.
8 His neighbors, then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked, "Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?"
9 Some said, "He is the one," but others said, "No he isn't; he just looks like him." So the man himself said, "I am the man."
10 "How is it that you can now see?" they asked him.
11 He answered, "The man called Jesus made some mud, rubbed it on my eyes, and told me to go to Siloam and wash my face. So I went, and as soon as I washed, I could see."
12 "Where is he?" they asked. "I don't know," he answered.
13 Then they took to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
14 The day that Jesus made the mud and cured him of his blindness was a Sabbath.
15 The Pharisees, then, asked the man again how he had received his sight. He told them, "He put some mud on my eyes; I washed my face, and now I can see."

Cross References 1

  • 1. 9.5Matthew 5.14;John 8.12.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.