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John 9:1-7

1Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

3Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

4We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes

7and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated “sent”). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

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