Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
1 As Jesus was walking along, he
saw a man who had been born
blind.
2 His disciples asked him,
“Teacher, whose sin caused him to
be born blind? Was it his own or his
parents' sin?”
3 Jesus answered, “His blindness
has nothing to do with his sins or his
parents' sins. He is blind so that
God's power might be seen at work
in him.
4 As long as it is day, we
must do the work of him who sent
me; night is coming when no one can
work.
5 While I am in the world, I am
the light for the world.” note
6 After he said this, Jesus spat on
the ground and made some mud
with the spittle; he rubbed the mud
on the man's eyes
7 and told him,
“Go and wash your face in the Pool
of Siloam.” (This name means
“Sent.”) So the man went, washed
his face, and came back seeing.
8 His neighbors, then, and the
people who had seen him begging
before this, asked, “Isn't this the
man who used to sit and beg?”
9 Some said, “He is the one,” but
others said, “No he isn't; he just
looks like him.”
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9 So the man himself said, “I am the
man.”
10 “How is it that you can now
see?” they asked him.
11 He answered, “The man called
Jesus made some mud, rubbed it on
my eyes, and told me to go to Siloam
and wash my face. So I went, and as
soon as I washed, I could see.”
12 “Where is he?” they asked.
12 “I don't know,” he answered.
The Pharisees Investigate the Healing
13 Then they took to the Pharisees
the man who had been blind.
14 The
day that Jesus made the mud and
cured him of his blindness was a
Sabbath.
15 The Pharisees, then,
asked the man again how he had received
his sight. He told them, “He
put some mud on my eyes; I washed
my face, and now I can see.”
16 Some of the Pharisees said, “The
man who did this cannot be from
God, for he does not obey the Sabbath
law.”
16 Others, however, said, “How
could a man who is a sinner perform
such miracles as these?” And there
was a division among them.
17 So the Pharisees asked the man
once more, “You say he cured you of
your blindness—well, what do you
say about him?”
17 “He is a prophet,” the man answered.
18 The Jewish authorities, however,
were not willing to believe that
he had been blind and could now
see, until they called his parents
19 and asked them, “Is this your son?
You say that he was born blind; how
is it, then, that he can now see?”
20 His parents answered, “We
know that he is our son, and we
know that he was born blind.
21 But
we do not know how it is that he is
now able to see, nor do we know
who cured him of his blindness. Ask
him; he is old enough, and he can answer
for himself!”
22 His parents said
this because they were afraid of the
Jewish authorities, who had already
agreed that anyone who said he believed
that Jesus was the Messiah
would be expelled from the synagogue.
23 That is why his parents
said, “He is old enough; ask him!”
24 A second time they called back
the man who had been born blind,
and said to him, “Promise before
God that you will tell the truth! We
know that this man who cured you is
a sinner.”
25 “I do not know if he is a sinner
or not,” the man replied. “One thing
I do know: I was blind, and now I
see.”
26 “What did he do to you?” they
asked. “How did he cure you of your
blindness?”
27 “I have already told you,” he answered,
“and you would not listen.
Why do you want to hear it again?
Maybe you, too, would like to be his
disciples?”
28 They insulted him and said,
“You are that fellow's disciple; but
we are Moses' disciples.
29 We know
that God spoke to Moses; as for that
fellow, however, we do not even
know where he comes from!”
30 The man answered, “What a
strange thing that is! You do not
know where he comes from, but he
cured me of my blindness!
31 We
know that God does not listen to sinners;
he does listen to people who respect
him and do what he wants
them to do.
32 Since the beginning of
the world nobody has ever heard of
anyone giving sight to a person born
blind.
33 Unless this man came from
God, he would not be able to do a
thing.”
34 They answered, “You were born
and brought up in sin—and you are
trying to teach us?” And they expelled
him from the synagogue.
Spiritual Blindness
35 When Jesus heard what had
happened, he found the man and
asked him, “Do you believe in the
Son of Man?”
36 The man answered, “Tell me
who he is, sir, so that I can believe in
him!”
37 Jesus said to him, “You have already
seen him, and he is the one
who is talking with you now.”
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38 “I believe, Lord!” the man said,
and knelt down before Jesus.
39 Jesus said, “I came to this world
to judge, so that the blind should see
and those who see should become
blind.”
40 Some Pharisees who were there
with him heard him say this and
asked him, “Surely you don't mean
that we are blind, too?”
41 Jesus answered, “If you were
blind, then you would not be guilty;
but since you claim that you can see,
this means that you are still guilty.”
Good News [1976], GOOD NEWS BIBLE WITH DEUTEROCANONICALS / APOCRYPHA Today's English Version (AMERICAN BIBLE SOCIETY, New York) [word count] [B15000].
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