1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him. 4 We must do the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” 6 After saying this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud on the man’s eyes. 7 He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went, washed, and came back seeing. 8 Then the neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar said, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he looks like him.” He kept saying, “I am the one.” 10 So they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received my sight.” 12 They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

13 They brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees. 14 Now the day Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath. 15 So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He told them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.” 16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them. 17 So they said to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

18 The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight. 19 They asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How, then, does he now see?” 20 His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21 But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” 22 His parents said this because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue. 23 That is why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

24 So they called the man who had been blind a second time and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.” 25 He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I know: I was blind, and now I see.” 26 They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” 27 He answered them, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?” 28 They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.” 30 The man answered them, “Now that is amazing! You do not know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone worships God and does his will, he listens to him. 32 Never has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” 34 They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they threw him out.

35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” 36 He answered, “Who is he, sir, so that I may believe in him?” 37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and the one speaking with you is he.” 38 He said, “I believe, Lord,” and he worshiped him. 39 Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.” 40 Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and said to him, “Are we blind too?” 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin. But now you say, ‘We see.’ Your sin remains.”