Outline
The Beginning of Jesus' Ministry (1:19-51)
Changing Water into Wine (2:1-11)Cleansing the Temple (2:12-25)Jesus Teaches Nicodemus (3:1-21)John the Baptist's Final Testimony about Jesus (3:22-36)Jesus and the Samaritans (4:1-42)Healing of the Official's Son (4:43-54)Jesus' Visit to Jerusalem at an Annual Feast (ch. 5)Feeding the 5,000 and Jesus' Claim to Be the Bread of Life (ch. 6)Jesus at the Feast of Tabernacles and Disputes over Who He Is (chs. 7-8)- Healing of the Man Born Blind (ch. 9)
Jesus is the Good Shepherd (10:1-21)Conflict at the Feast of Dedication over Jesus' Identity (10:22-42)The Raising of Lazarus (ch. 11)
Statement of the Gospel's Purpose (20:30-31)Epilogue: Jesus' Recommissioning of the Disciples (ch. 21)
John 9 NLT
1 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man
who had been blind from birth.
2 “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why
was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’
sins?”
3 “It was not because of his sins or his
parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be
seen in him.
4 We must quickly carry out the tasks
assigned us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can
work.
5But while I am here in the world, I am the
light of the world.”
6 Then he spit on the ground, made mud
with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes.
7 He told him, “Go wash yourself in the
pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back
seeing!
8 His neighbors and others who knew him as
a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and
beg?”
9 Some said he was, and others said, “No,
he just looks like him!” But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same
one!”
10 They asked, “Who healed you? What
happened?”
11 He told them, “The man they call Jesus
made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and
wash yourself.’ So I went and washed, and now I can see!”
12 “Where is he now?” they asked. “I don’t
know,” he replied.
13 Then they took the man who had been
blind to the Pharisees,
14because it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had
made the mud and healed him.
15 The Pharisees asked the man all about
it. So he told them, “He put the mud over my eyes, and when I washed it away, I
could see!”
16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man
Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath.” Others said, “But how
could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?” So there was a deep division
of opinion among them.
17 Then the Pharisees again questioned the
man who had been blind and demanded, “What’s your opinion about this man who
healed you?” The man replied, “I think he must be a prophet.”
18 The Jewish leaders still refused to believe
the man had been blind and could now see, so they called in his parents.
19They asked them, “Is this your son? Was he
born blind? If so, how can he now see?”
20 His parents replied, “We know this is
our son and that he was born blind,
21 but we don’t know how he can see or who
healed him. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
22 His parents said this because they were
afraid of the Jewish leaders, who had announced that anyone saying Jesus was
the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue.
23That’s why they said, “He is old enough. Ask
him.”
24 So for the second time they called in
the man who had been blind and told him, “God should get the glory for this,
because we know this man Jesus is a sinner.”
25 “I don’t know whether he is a sinner,”
the man replied. “But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!”
26 “But what did he do?” they asked. “How
did he heal you?”
27“Look!” the man exclaimed. “I told you once.
Didn’t you listen? Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his
disciples, too?”
28 Then they cursed him and said, “You are
his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!
29 We know God spoke to Moses, but we don’t
even know where this man comes from.”
30 “Why, that’s very strange!” the man
replied. “He healed my eyes, and yet you don’t know where he comes from?
31 We know that God doesn’t listen to
sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will.
32 Ever since the world began, no one has
been able to open the eyes of someone born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, he
couldn’t have done it.”
34 “You were born a total sinner!” they
answered. “Are you trying to teach us?” And they threw him out of the
synagogue.
35 When Jesus heard what had happened, he
found the man and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man? ”
36 The man answered, “Who is he, sir? I
want to believe in him.”
37 “You have seen him,” Jesus said, “and he
is speaking to you!”
38 “Yes, Lord, I believe!” the man said.
And he worshiped Jesus.
39Then Jesus told him, “I entered this world to
render judgment—to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see
that they are blind.”
40 Some Pharisees who were standing nearby
heard him and asked, “Are you saying we’re blind?”
41 “If you were blind, you wouldn’t be
guilty,” Jesus replied. “But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.
