As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
– John 9:1
After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes. “Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
His neighbours and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?” Some claimed that he was.
Others say, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
– John 9:6-9
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”
Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”
But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.
Then they turned again to te blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”
The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
– John 9:13-17
To this they replied, “You were steepedĀ in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.
– John 9:34
Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshipped him.
– John 9:38
