John 9:1-12

A Man Born Blind Is Given Sight

1 And [as he] went away, he saw a man blind from birth.

2 And his disciples asked him, saying, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?"

3 Jesus replied, "Neither this man sinned nor his parents, but [it happened] so that the works of God could be revealed in him.

4 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!

5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

6 [When he] had said these [things], he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes.

7 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.

8 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?"

9 Others were saying, "It is this man"; others were saying, "No, but he is like him." That one was saying, "I am [he]!"

10 So they began to say to him, "How were your eyes opened?"

11 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."

12 And they said to him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I do not know."

Footnotes

• [a]. *Here "[as]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("went away") which is understood as temporal
• [b]. *The words "[it happened]" are not in the Greek text but are implied
• [c]. *Here "[when]" is supplied as a component of the participle ("had said") which is understood as temporal
• [d]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")
• [e]. *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")
• [f]. Some manuscripts have "Then how"
• [g]. *Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
• [h]. *Here "[and]" is supplied because the two previous participles ("went" and "washed") have been translated as finite verbs