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So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"
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"Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.
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We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.
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When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
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After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him,
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"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" --the name means `Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.
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His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"
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"Yes it is," replied some of them. "No it is not," said others, "but he is like him." His own statement was, "I am the man."
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"How then were your eyes opened?" they asked.
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"He whose name is Jesus," he answered, "made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight."
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"Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.