A Man Born Blind Is Given Sight
1 And [as he] went away, he saw a man blind from birth.
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And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"
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Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but [it happened] so that the works of God could be revealed in him.
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It is necessary [for] us to do the deeds of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work!
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While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
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[When he] had said these [things], he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes.
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And he said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "sent"). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
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Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"
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Others were saying, "It is this man"; others were saying, "No, but he is like him." That one was saying, "I am [he]!"
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So they began to say to him, "How were your eyes opened?"
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He replied, "The man who is called Jesus made clay and smeared [it] on my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash!' So I went, and I washed, [and] I received sight."
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And they said to him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I do not know."