John 9
New King James Version
A Man Born Blind Receives Sight
9 Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth. 2 And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, (A)who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, (B)but that the works of God should be revealed in him. 4 (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. 5 As long as I am in the world, (E)I am the light of the world.”
6 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. 7 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.
8 Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was [b]blind said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?”
9 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.
John 9
English Standard Version
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
9 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, (A)“Rabbi, (B)who sinned, (C)this man or (D)his parents, that he was born blind?” 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but (E)that the works of God might be displayed in him. 4 We must (F)work the works of him who sent me (G)while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, (H)I am the light of the world.” 6 Having said these things, (I)he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. (J)Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud 7 and said to him, “Go, wash in (K)the pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and (L)came back seeing.
8 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, (M)“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” 10 So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, (N)“The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” 12 They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. 14 (O)Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15 (P)So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” 16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not (Q)from God, (R)for he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, (S)“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And (T)there was a division among them. 17 So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, (U)“He is a prophet.”
18 (V)The Jews[a] 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 and asked them, “Is this your son, who 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 these things (W)because they feared the Jews, for (X)the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should (Y)confess Jesus[b] to be Christ, (Z)he was to be put out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore his parents said, (AA)“He is of age; ask him.”)
24 So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, (AB)“Give glory to God. We know that (AC)this man is a sinner.” 25 He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I (AD)was blind, now I see.” 26 They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” 27 He answered them, (AE)“I have told you already, and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?” 28 And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but (AF)we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, (AG)we do not know where he comes from.” 30 The man answered, “Why, this is (AH)an amazing thing! (AI)You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that (AJ)God does not listen to sinners, but (AK)if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him. 32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. 33 (AL)If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” 34 They answered him, (AM)“You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they (AN)cast him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in (AO)the Son of Man?”[c] 36 He answered, (AP)“And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?” 37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and (AQ)it is he who is speaking to you.” 38 He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him. 39 Jesus said, (AR)“For judgment I came into this world, (AS)that those who do not see may see, and (AT)those who see may become blind.” 40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, (AU)“Are we also blind?” 41 Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, (AV)you would have no guilt;[d] but now that you say, ‘We see,’ your guilt remains.
Johannes 9
En Levende Bok
Jesus helbreder en mann som var født blind
9 Mens Jesus gikk langs veien, fikk han se en mann som var født blind.
2 Disiplene spurte: ”Mester, hvorfor ble denne mannen født blind? Kommer det av at han selv har syndet, eller av at hans foreldre har syndet?”
3 Jesus svarte dem: ”Han er slett ikke straffet på grunn av syndene sine. Men etter som han er født blind, kan Gud helbrede ham og vise sin kraft, 4 Derfor må vi skynde oss å gjøre det oppdraget vi har fått fra han som har sendt meg. Snart blir det natt, og da kan ingen arbeide. 5 Men så lenge jeg er hos menneskene, er jeg lyset deres.”
6 Jesus spyttet på jorden og gjorde en deig av leire som han strøk på øynene til den blinde mannen. 7 Jesus sa til mannen: ”Gå og vask deg i Siloadammen”. Siloa betyr sendt ut. Han gikk da av sted og vasket seg. Da han kom tilbake, kunne han se.
8 Naboene hans og andre som bare hadde sett han som tigger, spurte hverandre: ”Var det ikke han som før satt og tigget?”
9 ”Jo, det er det”, sa noen, mens andre sa: ”Nei, det er ikke ham. Han er bare lik ham.”
Tiggeren sa: ”Visst er det jeg.”
10 Da spurte de ham: ”Hva har skjedd? Hvordan kan det ha seg at du ser?”
11 Mannen svarte: ”Han som heter Jesus, gjorde en deig av leire og strøk den på øynene mine. Etterpå sa han at jeg skulle gå til Siloadammen og vaske meg. Da jeg hadde gjort det, kunne jeg se!”
12 De spurte ham: ”Hvor er Jesus nå?”
”Det vet jeg ikke,” svarte mannen.
Fariseerne vil kryssforhøre mannen
13 Da tok folket med seg mannen som hadde vært blind, til fariseerne[a]. 14 Etter som det var på en hviledag[b] Jesus hadde laget deigen og gitt mannen synet, vakte det diskusjon. Da fariseerne spurte hvordan det kunne ha seg at han hadde fått synet, 15 fortalte han historien enn gang til: ”Han strøk en deig av leire på øynene mine, og da jeg vasket meg, kunne jeg se.”
16 Noen av fariseerne sa: ”Denne mannen kan ikke være sendt av Gud etter som han arbeider på hviledagen.” Andre sa: ”En synder kan vel ikke gjøre slike mirakler?” Så begynte de å diskutere med hverandre.
17 Etter en tid vendte fariseerne seg til mannen som hadde vært blind, og spurte: ”Hva sier du selv om ham? Det var jo du som fikk synet ditt.” Mannen svarte: ”Han må være en profet[c].”
18 Mange religiøse ledere tvilte på at mannen som var blitt helbredet, hadde vært blind i det hele tatt. De sendte bud på foreldrene hans 19 og spurte: ”Er dette sønnen deres? Ble han født blind? Dersom det er sant, hvordan kan det da ha seg at han nå ser?”
20 Foreldrene svarte: ”Det er sønnen vår, og vi vet at han ble født blind. 21 Men hvordan han nå kan se, det vet vi ikke, og heller ikke vet vi hvem som har helbredet ham. Spør ham selv. Han er gammel nok til å svare på spørsmålene dere måtte ha.”
22-23 Dette sa de fordi de fryktet de religiøse lederne. De hadde allerede bestemt at den som bekjente Jesus som Messias, den lovede kongen, skulle bli ekskludert fra Den jødiske menigheten.
24 For andre gangen kalte fariseerne til seg mannen som hadde vært blind, og sa til ham: ”Lov innfor Gud at du sier oss sannheten.[d] Vi vet at denne Jesus er en synder.”
25 Han svarte: ”Om han er en synder eller ikke, det vet ikke jeg. Det eneste jeg vet er at jeg som før var blind nå kan se.”
26 De spurte ham enda en gang: ”Hva gjorde han med deg? Hvordan gikk han fram da du fikk synet ditt?”
27 Mannen svarte: ”Det har jeg jo allerede fortalt. Hvorfor hører dere ikke etter? Vil dere også bli disiplene hans etter som dere ønsker å høre historien en gang til?”
28 Da forbannet de ham og sa: ”Det er du som er disippelen hans. Vi er disiplene til Moses. 29 Vi vet at Gud har talt til Moses, men hvor i all verden denne fyren kommer fra, det vet ikke vi.”
30 ”Dette er underlig”, svarte mannen. ”Han ga meg synet mitt, og enda vet ikke dere hvor han kommer fra. 31 Men at Gud ikke hører på syndere, det vet vi. Han hører på dem som tilber ham og gjør hans vilje. 32 Aldri før har vi hørt snakk om noen som har helbredet en som var født blind. 33 Om denne mannen ikke var sendt av Gud, da ville han ikke kunne gjøre noe slikt.”
34 ”Du er en synder tvers igjennom!”, ropte de. ”I tillegg forsøker du å undervise oss.” Så ekskluderte de mannen fra menigheten.
Jesus snakker om åndelig blindhet
35 Jesus fikk snart høre at de hadde ekskludert mannen fra Den jødiske menigheten. Da han møtte mannen igjen, spurte han: ”Tror du på Menneskesønnen[e] som Gud skulle sende?”
36 Mannen svarte: ”Herre, si meg hvem han er, slik at jeg kan tro på ham.”
37 Jesus sa: ”Du har sett ham. Det er han som snakker med deg.”
38 Da falt mannen ned foran Jesus og sa: ”Jeg tror, Herre.”
39 Jesus sa: ”Jeg har kommet til verden for å avsløre syndene hos menneskene. De som innser at de er blinde, skal begynne å se, men de som mener om seg selv at de kan se, de skal bli avslørt som blinde.”
40 Noen fariseere[f] som sto der, spurte da: ”Mener du at vi skulle være blinde?”
41 Jesus svarte: ”Om dere var blinde, ville dere være uten synd. Men dere påstår nå at dere kan se, og derfor er og blir dere skyldige.”
Footnotes
- 9:13 Fariseerne var et religiøst parti blant jødene. De var svært nøye med å følge hele Moseloven og hadde for øvrig lagt til egne regler og forskrifter.
- 9:14 I grunnteksten: Sabbaten. Jødene sin hviledag er den sjuende dagen i deres uke, altså lørdagen. Den dagen utfører ikke jødene noe unødvendig arbeid. Hviledagen ble innstiftet av Gud allerede i Første Mosebok 2:3.
- 9:17 En profet bringer Guds budskap.
- 9:24 På gresk: Gi Gud æren. Dette var en ed de bannet for domstolen.
- 9:35 ”Menneskesønnen” er et hebraisk ord for å si ”av mennesker”. Det var en tittel på Messias, den lovede kongen, hentet fra Daniel 7:13-14.
- 9:40 Fariseerne var et religiøst parti blant jødene.
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