John 9

Healing a Man Born Blind

¹ And passing by he saw [a] man blind from birth. ² And his disciples asked¹ him saying: Rabbi, who sinned, this [man] or his parents, that he be born blind? ³ Jesus answered: Neither this [man] sinned nor his parents, but [rather] that the works of God be manifested in him. ⁴ We must be working the works of the [one] having sent me while it is day; when night comes you are not able to be working. ⁵ While I be in the world, I am [the] light of the world. ⁶ Having said these [things] he spat on the ground and made clay from the spit, and spread the clay on [his] eyes, ⁷ and said to him: Be going, wash in the pool of Siloam, which is being translated: [The one] having been sent. He went out therefore and washed, and he came seeing. ⁸ So the neighbors and those seeing him formerly, that he was [a] beggar, were saying: Is this not the [one] sitting and begging? ⁹ Others were saying that, This is he, others were saying: No, but he is like him. That [one] was saying that: I am he. ¹⁰ They were therefore saying to him: How were your eyes opened? ¹¹ That [one] answered: The man being called Jesus made clay and spread [it on] my eyes and said to me: Be going to Siloam and wash. Having gone therefore and having been washed I saw again. ¹² And they said to him: Where is that [man]? He says: I do not know.

The Pharisee's Reaction to the Healing

¹³ They bring him to the Pharisees, the [one] once blind. ¹⁴ Now it was [the] Sabbath on the day Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ Again therefore the Pharisees were asking¹ him how he saw again. So he said to them: He placed clay on my eyes, and I washed myself, and I see.

¹⁶ Some therefore of the Pharisees were saying: This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath. But others were saying: How is [a] sinful man able to be doing such signs? And there was [a] division among them. ¹⁷ So they say again to the blind [one]: What do you say concerning him, since he opened your eyes? But he said that: He is [a] prophet.

¹⁸ So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he was blind and has regained sight until they called the parents of him having seen again, ¹⁹ and asked¹ them saying: Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see? ²⁰ His parents therefore answered and said: We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. ²¹ But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask¹ him, he has maturity² , he will speak for himself. ²² His parents said these [things] because they were fearing the Jews. For the Jews were already agreed that if anyone professed him [to be] Christ, he become expelled from the synagogue. ²³ Because of this did his parents say that: He has maturity², ask him.

²⁴ So they called the man who was blind [a] second time, and said to him: Give [the] glory to God, for we know that this [one] is [a] sinful man. ²⁵ That [one] therefore answered: If he is [a] sinner I do not know. One [thing] I know, that being blind I now see. ²⁶ They said therefore to him: What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? ²⁷ He answered them: I told you already and you did not hear: Why do you want to be hearing again? Do you too want to become his disciples?

²⁸ And they reviled him and said: You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹ We know that God has spoken in Moses, but we do not know from where he is. ³⁰ The man answered and said to them: But in this [one] is [an] amazing [thing], that you do not know from where he is, and he opened my eyes. ³¹ We know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone be godly and do his will, he hears this [one]. ³² From eternity it has not been heard that anyone opened [the] eyes of [one] born blind. ³³ If this [one] was not from God, he would not be able to be doing anything. ³⁴ They answered and said to him: You were born entirely in sins, and you teach us? And they threw him out.

The Man's Response to Jesus

³⁵ Jesus heard that they threw him out, and having found him he said: Do you believe in the son of man? ³⁶ That [one] answered and said: And who is he, Lord, that I believe in him? ³⁷ Jesus said to him: You have seen him and the [one] speaking with you is that [one]. ³⁸ So he said: I believe, Lord, and he worshipped him. ³⁹ And Jesus said: For judgment did I come into the world, in order that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind. ⁴⁰ Those of the Pharisees being with him heard these [things], and said to him, Are we also blind?³ ⁴¹ Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you were not having sin. But now you say: We see. Your sin abides.

¹EROTAO (ερωταω) "Ask", but more polite, not demanding/begging as is AITEO. Both AITEO and EROTAO occur in John.16:26.

²that is, he's an adult

³Grammar indicates "no" answer expected or expresses uncertainty