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9:3
Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.
9:4
While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
9:5
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
9:6
When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
9:7
Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
9:8
At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
9:9
Some claimed that he was, but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “I am the one.”
9:10
“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
9:11
He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”
9:12
“Where is He?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.
9:13
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
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Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.
9:15
So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
9:16
Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.
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So once again they asked the man who had been blind, “What do you say about Him, since it was your eyes He opened?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.
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The Jews still did not believe that the man had been blind and had received his sight until they summoned his parents