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Guérison d’un aveugle-né

Jésus vit, en passant, un homme aveugle de naissance. Ses disciples lui posèrent cette question: «Maître, qui a péché, cet homme ou ses parents, pour qu'il soit né aveugle?» Jésus répondit: «Ce n'est pas que lui ou ses parents aient péché, mais c'est afin que les œuvres de Dieu soient révélées en lui. Il faut que je fasse, tant qu'il fait jour, les œuvres de celui qui m'a envoyé; la nuit vient, où personne ne peut travailler. Pendant que je suis dans le monde, je suis la lumière du monde.»

Après avoir dit cela, il cracha par terre et fit de la boue avec sa salive. Puis il appliqua cette boue sur les yeux [de l'aveugle] et lui dit: «Va te laver au bassin de Siloé», nom qui signifie «envoyé». Il y alla donc, se lava et revint voyant clair. Ses voisins et ceux qui l'avaient vu mendier auparavant disaient: «N'est-ce pas celui qui se tenait assis et qui mendiait?» Les uns disaient: «C'est lui.» D'autres disaient: «Non, mais il lui ressemble.» Mais lui affirmait: «C'est bien moi.» 10 Ils lui dirent donc: «Comment [donc] tes yeux ont-ils été ouverts?» 11 Il répondit: «L'homme qu'on appelle Jésus a fait de la boue, l'a appliquée sur mes yeux et m'a dit: ‘Va au bassin de Siloé et lave-toi.’ J'y suis donc allé, je me suis lavé et j'ai pu voir.» 12 Ils lui dirent: «Où est cet homme?» Il répondit: «Je ne sais pas.»

13 Ils menèrent vers les pharisiens l'homme qui avait été aveugle. 14 Or c'était un jour de sabbat que Jésus avait fait de la boue et lui avait ouvert les yeux. 15 A leur tour, les pharisiens lui demandèrent comment il avait pu voir. Il leur dit: «Il a appliqué de la boue sur mes yeux, je me suis lavé et je vois.» 16 Là-dessus, quelques-uns des pharisiens disaient: «Cet homme ne vient pas de Dieu, car il ne respecte pas le sabbat», mais d'autres disaient: «Comment un homme pécheur peut-il faire de tels signes miraculeux?» Et il y eut division parmi eux. 17 Ils dirent encore à l'aveugle: «Toi, que dis-tu de lui, puisqu'il t'a ouvert les yeux?» Il répondit: «C'est un prophète.»

18 Les Juifs ne voulurent pas croire qu'il avait été aveugle et qu’il voyait désormais, avant d'avoir fait venir ses parents. 19 Ils les interrogèrent en disant: «Est-ce bien votre fils, que vous dites être né aveugle? Comment donc se fait-il qu’il voie maintenant?» 20 Ses parents leur répondirent: «Nous savons que c'est bien notre fils et qu'il est né aveugle, 21 mais nous ne savons pas comment il se fait qu'il voie maintenant, ni qui lui a ouvert les yeux. Interrogez-le lui-même, il est assez grand pour parler de ce qui le concerne.» 22 Ses parents dirent cela parce qu'ils avaient peur des chefs juifs. En effet, ceux-ci avaient déjà décidé d'exclure de la synagogue celui qui reconnaîtrait Jésus comme le Messie. 23 Voilà pourquoi ses parents dirent: «Il est assez grand, interrogez-le lui-même.»

24 Les pharisiens appelèrent une seconde fois l'homme qui avait été aveugle et lui dirent: «Rends gloire à Dieu! Nous savons que cet homme est un pécheur.» 25 Il répondit: «S'il est un pécheur, je n'en sais rien. Je sais une chose: c'est que j'étais aveugle et maintenant je vois.» 26 Ils lui dirent [de nouveau]: «Que t'a-t-il fait? Comment t'a-t-il ouvert les yeux?» 27 Il leur répondit: «Je vous l'ai déjà dit et vous n'avez pas écouté. Pourquoi voulez-vous l'entendre encore? Voulez-vous aussi devenir ses disciples?» 28 Ils l'insultèrent et dirent: «C'est toi qui es son disciple. Nous, nous sommes disciples de Moïse. 29 Nous savons que Dieu a parlé à Moïse, mais celui-ci, nous ne savons pas d'où il est.» 30 Cet homme leur répondit: «Voilà qui est étonnant: vous ne savez pas d'où il est, et pourtant il m'a ouvert les yeux! 31 Nous savons que Dieu n'exauce pas les pécheurs mais qu’en revanche, si quelqu'un l'honore et fait sa volonté, il l'exauce. 32 Jamais encore on n'a entendu dire que quelqu'un ait ouvert les yeux d'un aveugle-né. 33 Si cet homme ne venait pas de Dieu, il ne pourrait rien faire.» 34 Ils lui répondirent: «Tu es né tout entier dans le péché et tu nous enseignes!» Et ils le chassèrent.

35 Jésus apprit qu'ils l'avaient chassé. L’ayant rencontré, il [lui] dit: «Crois-tu au Fils de Dieu?» 36 Il répondit: «Et qui est-il, Seigneur, afin que je croie en lui?» 37 «Tu l'as vu, lui dit Jésus, et celui qui te parle, c'est lui.» 38 Alors il dit: «Je crois, Seigneur.» Et il se prosterna devant lui.

39 Puis Jésus dit: «Je suis venu dans ce monde pour un jugement, pour que ceux qui ne voient pas voient et pour que ceux qui voient deviennent aveugles.» 40 Quelques pharisiens qui étaient avec lui entendirent ces paroles et lui dirent: «Nous aussi, sommes-nous aveugles?» 41 Jésus leur répondit: «Si vous étiez aveugles, vous n'auriez pas de péché. Mais en réalité, vous dites: ‘Nous voyons.’ [Ainsi donc,] votre péché reste.

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been born blind. His disciples asked him, “Teacher, whose sin caused him to be born blind? Was it his own or his parents' sin?”

Jesus answered, “His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents' sins. He is blind so that God's power might be seen at work in him. As long as it is day, we must do the work of him who sent me; night is coming when no one can work. (A)While I am in the world, I am the light for the world.”

After he said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the spittle; he rubbed the mud on the man's eyes and told him, “Go and wash your face in the Pool of Siloam.” (This name means “Sent.”) So the man went, washed his face, and came back seeing.

His neighbors, then, and the people who had seen him begging before this, asked, “Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?”

Some said, “He is the one,” but others said, “No he isn't; he just looks like him.”

So the man himself said, “I am the man.”

10 “How is it that you can now see?” they asked him.

11 He answered, “The man called Jesus made some mud, rubbed it on my eyes, and told me to go to Siloam and wash my face. So I went, and as soon as I washed, I could see.”

12 “Where is he?” they asked.

“I don't know,” he answered.

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

13 Then they took to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. 14 The day that Jesus made the mud and cured him of his blindness was a Sabbath. 15 The Pharisees, then, asked the man again how he had received his sight. He told them, “He put some mud on my eyes; I washed my face, and now I can see.”

16 Some of the Pharisees said, “The man who did this cannot be from God, for he does not obey the Sabbath law.”

Others, however, said, “How could a man who is a sinner perform such miracles as these?” And there was a division among them.

17 So the Pharisees asked the man once more, “You say he cured you of your blindness—well, what do you say about him?”

“He is a prophet,” the man answered.

18 The Jewish authorities, however, were not willing to believe that he had been blind and could now see, until they called his parents 19 and asked them, “Is this your son? You say that he was born blind; how is it, then, that he can now see?”

20 His parents answered, “We know that he is our son, and we know that he was born blind. 21 But we do not know how it is that he is now able to see, nor do we know who cured him of his blindness. Ask him; he is old enough, and he can answer for himself!” 22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish authorities, who had already agreed that anyone who said he believed that Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue. 23 That is why his parents said, “He is old enough; ask him!”

24 A second time they called back the man who had been born blind, and said to him, “Promise before God that you will tell the truth! We know that this man who cured you is a sinner.”

25 “I do not know if he is a sinner or not,” the man replied. “One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.”

26 “What did he do to you?” they asked. “How did he cure you of your blindness?”

27 “I have already told you,” he answered, “and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Maybe you, too, would like to be his disciples?”

28 They insulted him and said, “You are that fellow's disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. 29 We know that God spoke to Moses; as for that fellow, however, we do not even know where he comes from!”

30 The man answered, “What a strange thing that is! You do not know where he comes from, but he cured me of my blindness! 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners; he does listen to people who respect him and do what he wants them to do. 32 Since the beginning of the world nobody has ever heard of anyone giving sight to a person born blind. 33 Unless this man came from God, he would not be able to do a thing.”

34 They answered, “You were born and brought up in sin—and you are trying to teach us?” And they expelled him from the synagogue.

Spiritual Blindness

35 When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

36 The man answered, “Tell me who he is, sir, so that I can believe in him!”

37 Jesus said to him, “You have already seen him, and he is the one who is talking with you now.”

38 “I believe, Lord!” the man said, and knelt down before Jesus.

39 Jesus said, “I came to this world to judge, so that the blind should see and those who see should become blind.”

40 Some Pharisees who were there with him heard him say this and asked him, “Surely you don't mean that we are blind, too?”

41 Jesus answered, “If you were blind, then you would not be guilty; but since you claim that you can see, this means that you are still guilty.”

A Man Born Blind Receives Sight

Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, (A)who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, (B)but that the works of God should be revealed in him. (C)I[a] must work the works of Him who sent Me while it is (D)day; the night is coming when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, (E)I am the light of the world.”

When He had said these things, (F)He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And He said to him, “Go, wash (G)in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So (H)he went and washed, and came back seeing.

Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was [b]blind said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?”

Some said, “This is he.” Others said, [c]“He is like him.”

He said, “I am he.

10 Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”

11 He answered and said, (I)“A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to [d]the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received sight.”

12 Then they said to him, “Where is He?”

He said, “I do not know.”

The Pharisees Excommunicate the Healed Man

13 They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees. 14 Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. 15 Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

16 Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This Man is not from God, because He does not [e]keep the Sabbath.”

Others said, (J)“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And (K)there was a division among them.

17 They said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him because He opened your eyes?”

He said, (L)“He is a prophet.”

18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight. 19 And they asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

20 His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21 but by what means he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.” 22 His parents said these things because (M)they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he (N)would be put out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

24 So they again called the man who was blind, and said to him, (O)“Give God the glory! (P)We know that this Man is a sinner.”

25 He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

26 Then they said to him again, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”

27 He answered them, “I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”

28 Then they reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples. 29 We know that God (Q)spoke to (R)Moses; as for this fellow, (S)we do not know where He is from.”

30 The man answered and said to them, (T)“Why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know where He is from; yet He has opened my eyes! 31 Now we know that (U)God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him. 32 Since the world began it has been unheard of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind. 33 (V)If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing.”

34 They answered and said to him, (W)“You were completely born in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they [f]cast him out.

True Vision and True Blindness

35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when He had (X)found him, He said to him, “Do you (Y)believe in (Z)the Son of [g]God?”

36 He answered and said, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?”

37 And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and (AA)it is He who is talking with you.”

38 Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he (AB)worshiped Him.

39 And Jesus said, (AC)“For judgment I have come into this world, (AD)that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”

40 Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, (AE)and said to Him, “Are we blind also?”

41 Jesus said to them, (AF)“If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

Footnotes

  1. John 9:4 NU We
  2. John 9:8 NU a beggar
  3. John 9:9 NU “No, but he is like him.”
  4. John 9:11 NU omits the pool of
  5. John 9:16 observe
  6. John 9:34 Excommunicated him
  7. John 9:35 NU Man