John 9

1As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth.

2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”Cross-references: Ex 20:5 · Matt 16:14 · Matt 23:7 · Luke 13:2 · John 9:34 · Acts 28:4

3Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.Cross-references: Job 1:8 · Job 2:3 · Job 21:27 · Job 22:5 · Job 32:3 · Job 42:7 · +8 more

4I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.Cross-references: Eccl 9:10 · Isa 38:18 · Luke 13:32 · John 4:34 · John 5:19 · John 5:36 · +9 more

5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”Cross-references: Isa 42:6 · Isa 49:6 · Isa 60:1 · Mal 4:2 · Matt 4:16 · Luke 2:32 · +10 more

6When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,Cross-references: Mark 7:33 · Mark 8:23 · Rev 3:18

7and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.Cross-references: Ex 4:11 · 2Ki 5:10 · Neh 3:15 · Ps 146:8 · Isa 8:6 · Isa 29:18 · +14 more

8Therefore the neighbors and those who saw that he was blind before said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”Cross-references: Ruth 1:19 · 1Sam 2:8 · 1Sam 21:11 · Mark 10:46 · Luke 16:20 · Luke 18:35 · +1 more

9Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”

10They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”Cross-references: Eccl 11:5 · Mark 4:27 · John 3:9 · John 9:15 · John 9:21 · John 9:26 · +1 more

11He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”Cross-references: Jer 36:17 · John 9:6 · John 9:27

12Then they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”Cross-references: Ex 2:18 · John 5:11 · John 7:11

13They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.Cross-references: John 8:3 · John 11:46 · John 11:57 · John 12:19 · John 12:42

14It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.Cross-references: Matt 12:1 · Mark 2:23 · Luke 6:1 · Luke 13:10 · Luke 14:1 · John 5:9 · +2 more

15Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”Cross-references: John 9:10 · John 9:26

16Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” So there was division among them.Cross-references: Matt 12:2 · Luke 13:31 · John 3:2 · John 5:36 · John 6:52 · John 7:12 · +7 more

17Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”Cross-references: Matt 21:11 · Luke 24:19 · John 4:19 · John 6:14 · Acts 2:22 · Acts 3:22 · +1 more

18The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,Cross-references: Gen 19:14 · Isa 26:11 · Isa 53:1 · Luke 16:31 · John 1:19 · John 5:44 · +4 more

19and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”Cross-references: John 9:8 · Acts 3:10 · Acts 4:14

20His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

21but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”

22His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.Cross-references: Ps 27:1 · Prov 29:25 · Isa 51:7 · Isa 51:12 · Isa 57:11 · Luke 6:22 · +14 more

23Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”Cross-references: John 9:21

24So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”Cross-references: Josh 7:19 · 1Sam 6:5 · Ps 50:14 · Isa 66:5 · Mark 15:27 · Luke 7:39 · +13 more

25He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”Cross-references: John 5:11 · John 9:30 · 1John 5:10

26They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

27He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”Cross-references: Luke 22:67 · John 9:10

28They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.Cross-references: Isa 51:7 · Matt 5:11 · Matt 27:39 · John 5:45 · John 7:19 · John 7:47 · +6 more

29We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”Cross-references: Num 12:2 · Num 16:28 · Deut 34:10 · 1Ki 22:27 · 2Ki 9:11 · Ps 22:6 · +18 more

30The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.Cross-references: Ps 119:18 · Isa 29:14 · Isa 29:18 · Isa 35:5 · Matt 11:5 · Mark 6:6 · +4 more

31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him.Cross-references: Gen 18:23 · Gen 19:29 · Gen 20:7 · 1Ki 17:20 · 1Ki 18:36 · 2Chr 32:20 · +30 more

32Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.Cross-references: Job 20:4 · Isa 64:4 · Luke 1:70 · Rev 16:18

33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”Cross-references: John 3:2 · John 9:16 · Acts 5:38

34They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.Cross-references: Gen 19:9 · Ex 2:14 · 2Chr 25:16 · Job 14:4 · Job 15:14 · Job 25:4 · +27 more

35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”Cross-references: Ps 2:7 · Ps 2:12 · Ps 27:10 · Matt 14:33 · Matt 16:16 · Mark 1:1 · +21 more

36He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”Cross-references: Prov 30:3 · Song 5:9 · Matt 11:3 · John 1:38 · Rom 10:14

37Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”Cross-references: Ps 25:8 · Ps 25:14 · Matt 11:25 · Matt 13:11 · John 4:26 · John 7:17 · +2 more

38He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.Cross-references: Ps 2:12 · Ps 45:11 · Matt 14:33 · Matt 28:9 · Matt 28:17 · Luke 24:52 · +2 moreExamined: Quran & the Bible →

39Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”Cross-references: Isa 6:9 · Isa 29:10 · Isa 42:18 · Isa 44:18 · Jer 1:9 · Matt 6:23 · +25 more

40Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”Cross-references: Matt 15:12 · Matt 23:16 · Luke 11:39 · John 7:47 · John 9:34 · Rom 2:19 · +1 more

41Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.Cross-references: Prov 26:12 · Isa 5:21 · Jer 2:35 · Luke 12:47 · Luke 18:14 · John 15:22 · +2 more