¹Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. ²His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?” ³Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him. ⁴We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work. ⁵As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ⁶Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes ⁷and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated “sent”). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing. ⁸Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” ⁹Some people said, “This is the man!” while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting, “I am the one!”¹⁰So they asked him, “How then were you made to see?” ¹¹He replied, “The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.” ¹²They said to him, “Where is that man?” He replied, “I don’t know.” ¹³They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.) ¹⁵So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, “He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see.” ¹⁶Then some of the Pharisees began to say, “This man is not from God because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them. ¹⁷So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied. ¹⁸Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see. ¹⁹They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?” ²⁰So his parents replied, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. ²¹But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself.” ²²(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue. ²³For this reason his parents said, “He is a mature adult, ask him.”) ²⁴Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.” ²⁵He replied, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing—that although I was blind, now I can see.” ²⁶Then they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?” ²⁷He answered, “I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?” ²⁸They heaped insults on him, saying, “You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses! ²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!” ³⁰The man replied, “This is a remarkable thing that you don’t know where he comes from and yet he caused me to see! ³¹We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him. ³²Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see. ³³If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” ³⁴They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out. ³⁵Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” ³⁶The man replied, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” ³⁷Jesus told him, “You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you.” [³⁸He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. ³⁹Jesus said,] “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.” ⁴⁰Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”⁴¹Jesus replied, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.