John 9:3-15

3Jesus answered, ‘It was not because either this man or his parents did something wrong. It happened so that God could show his great work in this man.

4While it is still day, we must continue to work. God has sent me and we must do his work. We must work now because it will be night soon. Then nobody can work.

5While I am still here in the world, I am the world's light.’

6When Jesus had finished speaking, he spat on the ground. He mixed it with dirt on the ground so that he made mud. Then he put some of the mud on the eyes of the blind man.

7Jesus said to him, ‘Go and wash in the Siloam pool.’ (The name Siloam means ‘Sent’.) So the man went there and he washed himself. When he returned, now he could see.

8People began to talk about him. Some of these people lived near him. Others had seen him when he was asking for money. They said, ‘This is the man who sat here. He asked people to give him money. Isn't that right?’

9Some people said, ‘Yes, it is him.’ But other people said, ‘No, it is someone who seems to be like him.’ But the man himself said, ‘I am that man.’

10They asked him, ‘How did your eyes now become able to see?’

11He answered, ‘The man called Jesus made some mud. He put the mud on my eyes. Then he sent me to wash in the Siloam pool. So I went there and I washed. Then I could see.’

12They asked him, ‘Where is this man?’ He replied, ‘I do not know.’

13The people brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

14It was a Jewish day of rest when Jesus had done this miracle. He had used mud to make the man's eyes able to see.

15So the Pharisees asked the man again, ‘How did you become able to see?’ The man replied, ‘Jesus put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I can see.’