John 9

John 9:1-2

¹As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. ²His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

Jesus sees a man blind from birth; disciples ask whose sin caused it.

John 9:3-7

³Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him. ⁴I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. ⁵While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” ⁶When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, ⁷and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

Jesus says the blindness is so God’s works may be revealed; He is the world’s light, makes mud, and sends the man to wash at Siloam; he returns seeing.

John 9:8-9

⁸Therefore the neighbors and those who saw that he was blind before said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?” ⁹Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”

Neighbors debate whether he is the same beggar; he insists, I am he.

John 9:10

¹⁰They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

They ask how his eyes were opened.

John 9:11

¹¹He answered, “A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight.”

He recounts that Jesus made mud, anointed him, sent him to Siloam, and he washed and saw.

John 9:12

¹²Then they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.”

They ask where Jesus is; the man does not know.

John 9:13-15

¹³They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. ¹⁴It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ¹⁵Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”

They bring him to the Pharisees; it was a Sabbath; he again describes the healing.

John 9:16

¹⁶Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” So there was division among them.

Pharisees split: some say Jesus is not from God for breaking Sabbath; others ask how a sinner does such signs.

John 9:17

¹⁷Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

Asked for his opinion, the man says Jesus is a prophet.

John 9:18-19

¹⁸The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, ¹⁹and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

Leaders refuse to believe he was born blind until they question his parents.

John 9:20-23

²⁰His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ²¹but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.” ²²His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. ²³Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”

Parents affirm he is their son born blind but dodge how he sees, fearing expulsion from the synagogue.

John 9:24

²⁴So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”

They summon the man again and demand he give glory to God by agreeing Jesus is a sinner.

John 9:25

²⁵He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”

He answers that he does not know if Jesus is a sinner, but he knows he was blind and now sees.

John 9:26

²⁶They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

They ask again what Jesus did and how He opened his eyes.

John 9:27

²⁷He answered them, “I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?”

He says he already told them; asks if they also want to become Jesus’ disciples.

John 9:28-29

²⁸They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. ²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.”

They revile him as Jesus’ disciple, claim Moses’ discipleship, and say they do not know where Jesus comes from.

John 9:30-33

³⁰The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. ³¹We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him. ³²Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. ³³If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

The man marvels at their ignorance of Jesus’ origin and argues that God does not hear sinners; if Jesus were not from God He could do nothing.

John 9:34

³⁴They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out.

They accuse him of being born in sins and cast him out.

John 9:35

³⁵Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”

Jesus finds the cast-out man and asks if he believes in the Son of God.

John 9:36

³⁶He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”

He asks who the Son of God is so that he may believe.

John 9:37

³⁷Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.”

Jesus says he has seen the Son of God, and He is the one speaking with him.

John 9:38

³⁸He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him.

He confesses belief and worships Jesus.

John 9:39

³⁹Jesus said, “I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind.”

Jesus says He came for judgment so the blind may see and those who see may become blind.

John 9:40

⁴⁰Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”

Pharisees ask if they also are blind.

John 9:41

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

Jesus says if they were blind they would be without sin, but claiming “we see” leaves their sin remaining.

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