Old/New Testament

Christ makes the man who was born blind able to see.

9 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth. ² And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin: this man, or his father and mother, that he was born blind? ³ Jesus answered, Neither has this man sinned, nor yet his father and mother, but it is so that the works of God may be shown on him. ⁴ I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. The night comes, when no man can work. ⁵ As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

⁶ As soon as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, ⁷ and said to him, Go and wash in the pool of Siloam (which, translated, means Sent). He went his way and washed, and came back seeing. ⁸ The neighbours and people that had seen him before, how he was a beggar, said, Is this not the man who sat and begged? ⁹ Some said, This is the man. Others said, He is like him. But he himself said, I am he.

¹⁰ They said to him, How were your eyes opened then? ¹¹ He answered and said, The man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes, and said to me, Go to the pool Siloam and wash. And I went and washed, and received my sight.

¹² They said to him, Where is he? He said, I do not know.

¹³ Then they brought to the Pharisees the man who a little before had been blind. ¹⁴ For it was the Sabbath day when Jesus had made the clay and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said to them, He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and do see. ¹⁶ Then some of the Pharisees said, This man is not of God, because he does not keep the Sabbath day. Others said, How can a man who is a sinner do such miracles? And there was disagreement among them. ¹⁷ Then they spoke to the blind man again: What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

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

²⁰ His father and mother answered them and said, We know well that this is our son and that he was born blind. ²¹ But by what means he now sees, that we do not know. Or who has opened his eyes, we do not know. He is old enough; ask him. Let him answer for himself.

²² His father and mother spoke such words because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had decided already that if anyone confessed that Jesus was the Christ, he would be excommunicated out of the synagogue. ²³ Therefore his father and mother said, He is old enough; ask him.