He gives sight to the man born blind.
9:1. And Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth.
9:2. And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or
his parents, that he should be born blind?
9:3. Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but
that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
9:4. I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the
night cometh, when no man can work.
9:5. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
9:6. When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay
of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes,
9:7. And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which is
interpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed: and he came seeing.
9:8. The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that
he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said:
This is he.
9:9. But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he.
9:10. They said therefore to him: How were thy eyes opened?
9:11. He answered: That man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed
my eyes and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe and wash. And I went: I
washed: and I see.
9:12. And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not.
9:13. They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees.
9:14. Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his
eyes.
9:15. Again therefore the Pharisees asked him how he had received his
sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes: and I washed: and
I see.
9:16. Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who
keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a
sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
9:17. They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest thou of
him that hath opened thy eyes? And he said: He is a prophet.
9:18. The Jews then did not believe concerning him, that he had been
blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him
that had received his sight,
9:19. And asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born
blind? How then doth he now see?
9:20. His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son
and that he was born blind:
9:21. But how he now seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes,
we know not. Ask himself: he is of age: Let him speak for himself.
9:22. These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for
the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should
confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
9:23. Therefore did his parents say: He is of age. Ask himself.
9:24. They therefore called the man again that had been blind and said
to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.
9:25. He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not. One
thing I know, that whereas I was blind. now I see.
9:26. They said then to him: What did he to thee? How did he open thy
eyes?
9:27. He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard.
Why would you hear it again? Will you also become his disciples?
9:28. They reviled him therefore and said: Be thou his disciple; but we
are the disciples of Moses.
9:29. We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not
from whence he is.
9:30. The man answered and said to them: why, herein is a wonderful
thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened my eyes.
9:31. Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a
server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth.
9:32. From the beginning of the world it hath not been heard, that any
man hath opened the eyes of one born blind.
9:33. Unless this man were of God, he could not do anything.
9:34. They answered and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and
dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
9:35. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found
him, he said to him: Dost thou believe in the Son of God?
9:36. He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in
him?
9:37. And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him; and it is he that
talketh with thee.
9:38. And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him.
9:39. And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they
who see not may see; and they who see may become blind.
I am come, etc.... Not that Christ came for that end, that any one
should be made blind: but that the Jews, by the abuse of his coming,
and by their not receiving him, brought upon themselves this judgment
of blindness.
9:40. And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they
said unto him: Are we also blind?
9:41. Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin:
but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.
If you were blind, etc.... If you were invincibly ignorant, and had
neither read the scriptures, nor seen my miracles, you would not be
guilty of the sin of infidelity: but now, as you boast of your
knowledge of the scriptures, you are inexcusable.