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UST YHN Chapter 9

9 While Jesus was walking along the path, he saw a man who had been blind since the day he was born. 2 His disciples asked him, “Teacher, whose sin caused this man to be blind when he was born? Did this man or his parents sin?” 3 Jesus replied, “It was neither the sin of this man nor the sin of his parents that caused him to be blind when he was born. Rather, he was blind when he was born so that I might show people the miraculous works God will do in him. 4 While I am still with you, we must do the miraculous works that my Father who sent me wants us to do. Just like day is followed by night, when people cannot work, a time will come when it is too late for us to do what God wants us to do. 5 While I am still living in this world, I am the one who gives God’s good and true light to the people in the world.”

6 When he said this, he spat on the dirt and made mud by mixing his saliva with the dirt. Then he spread that mud on the blind man’s eyes. 7 Then Jesus said to the blind man, “Go and wash the mud off in the pool of Siloam!” (‘Siloam’ means ‘sent’ in Aramaic). So the man left and washed the mud off in that pool. Then he went home when he was able to see. 8 The man’s neighbors and others who had seen him in the past and knew that he was a beggar said, “This is surely the man who used to sit here and beg!” 9 Some people said, “Yes, he is that man.” Other people said, “No, but he just looks like that man.” However, the man himself said, “Yes, I am the man who was blind!” 10 So they asked him, “How is it that you can see now?” 11 He replied, “The man people call Jesus made mud with dirt and his saliva and spread it on my eyes. Then he told me to go to the pool of Siloam and wash the mud off. So I went there and washed the mud off. Then I was able to see for the first time.” 12 They asked him, “Where is that man?” He replied, “I do not know where he is.”

13 Some of the people there took the man who used to be blind to some of the Pharisees. 14 (Now the day when Jesus made the mud with his saliva and enabled the man to see was the Jewish day for rest.) 15 Then the Pharisees questioned the man for a second time. This time as well, they asked him about how he was now able to see. He told them, “The man placed mud on my eyes, and I washed it off, and now I am able to see for the first time.” 16 Some of the Pharisees then said, “We know that this man has not come from God, because he does not follow the rules for the Jewish day for rest.” Some other Pharisees said, “Surely a sinful man could not do the kinds of miraculous signs that this man does!” So the Pharisees disagreed with each other regarding who Jesus was. 17 So the Pharisees asked the blind man again, “What do you say about this man, since you say that he is the one who enabled you to see?” The man said, “He must be a prophet.”

18 Because the man believed that Jesus was a prophet, the Jewish leaders did not believe that the man had been blind and then became able to see until after they summoned the man’s parents in order to question them. 19 They asked his parents, “Is this man your son? Do you say that he was blind when he was born? If that is so, then how is he able to see at this time?” 20 His parents replied, “We are certain that this man is our son. We are also certain that he was blind when he was born. 21 Nevertheless, we do not know how he is able to see at this time. We also do not know who enabled him to see. Ask him. He is old enough to speak on his own behalf.” 22 (The Jewish leaders had previously agreed among themselves that they would ban anyone who declared that Jesus was the Messiah from entering the Jewish meeting place. Because of this, the man’s parents were afraid of them and told them those things.) 23 That is also why they said to the Jewish leaders, “Ask him. He is old enough.”

24 So the Jewish leaders summoned for a second time the man who had been blind. They told him, “Glorify God by speaking only the truth! We ourselves are certain that this man who you say healed you is sinful.” 25 The man whom Jesus healed replied, “I do not know if he is sinful or not. One thing I do know is that I used to be blind, but now I can see.” 26 They then asked him, “What did he do to you in order to heal you? How did he enable you to see?” 27 He replied, “I have already told you the answers to those questions, but you did not listen to what I said. Why do you want me to tell you again? Could it be that you also desire to become his disciples?” 28 Then they spoke insultingly to him: “You are that man’s disciple! As for us, we are Moses’s disciples! 29 We are certain that God spoke to Moses long ago. As for this man, we do not even know where he came from!” 30 The man replied, “I am amazed! You do not even know where he came from, but he is the one who enabled me to see! 31 We are certain that God does not respond to the prayers of sinful people. Rather, he responds to the prayers of people who worship him and who do what he wants them to do. 32 Never before has anyone ever heard that someone enabled a man to see who was blind when he was born! 33 If this man had not come from God, he could not have done even one miracle like that!” 34 The Jewish leaders replied to him, “You were born blind entirely as a result of your parents’ sins! How dare you teach us!” Then they banned him from the Jewish meeting place.

35 Jesus heard that the Jewish leaders had banned the man he had healed from the Jewish meeting place. When he searched for him and found him, he asked him, “Do you trust the Son of Man?” 36 The man answered, “Sir, who is he? Please tell me, so that I may trust him.” 37 Jesus told him, “You have already seen him. I am that very person who is talking to you now.” 38 The man said, “Lord, I trust that you are the Son of Man.” Then he went down on his knees and worshiped Jesus.

39 Jesus said, “I have come into this world in order to judge its people. The result will be that the people who realize they do not perceive God’s truth may perceive it, like a blind person becoming able to see. Another result will be that the people who think they perceive God’s truth will not perceive it, like a person who sees and becomes blind.” 40 When some of the Pharisees who were near Jesus heard him say this, they asked him, “Do you think that we also cannot perceive God’s truth, like blind people?” 41 Jesus replied, “If you recognized that you are spiritually blind, you would not be guilty of sin. However, because you claim to perceive God’s truth, like someone who sees, you are still guilty of your sin.”

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