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As Yeshua passed along, he saw a man blind from birth.
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His talmidim asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned -- this man or his parents -- to cause him to be born blind?"
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Yeshua answered, "His blindness is due neither to his sin nor to that of his parents; it happened so that God's power might be seen at work in him.
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As long as it is day, we must keep doing the work of the One who sent me; the 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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Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, put the mud on the man's eyes,
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and said to him, "Go, wash off in the Pool of Shiloach!" (The name means "sent.") So he went and washed and came away seeing.
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His neighbors and those who previously had seen him begging said, "Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?"
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Some said, "Yes, he's the one"; while others said, "No, but he looks like him." However, he himself said, "I'm the one."