JESUS HEALS A MAN BORN BLIND

John 9:1-34

As He went along, He saw a man blind from birth.

2 His Disciples asked Him, 'Rabbi, who sinned,

This man or his parents, that he was born blind?'

3 'Neither this man nor his parents sinned,' said Jesus,

'But this happened so that the Work of God

Might be displayed in his life.

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 OF THE WORLD.'

6 Having said this, He spit on the ground,

Made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man's eyes.

7 'Go,' He told him, 'wash in the pool of Siloam.'

(this word means Sent).

So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.

8 His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked,

'Isn't this the same man who used to sit and beg?'

9 Some claimed that he was .

Others said, 'No, he only looks like him.'

But he himself, insisted 'I am the man.'

10 'How them were your eyes opened?' they demanded.

11 He replied, 'The man they call Jesus made some mud

And put it on my eyes.

He told me to go to Siloam and wash.

So I went and washed, and then I could see.'

12 'Where is this man?' they asked him.

'I don't know,' he said.

The Pharisees Investigate The Healing

13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.

14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud

And opened the man's eyes was a Sabbath.

15 Therefore the Pharisees also asked him

How he had received his sight.

'He pur mud on my eyes,' the man replied,

'And I washed, and now I see.'

But others asked, 'How can a sinner do such miraculous signs?'

So they were divided.

17 Finally they turned again to the blind man,

'What have you to say about Him?

It was your eyes He opened.'

The man replied, 'He is a Prophet.'

18 The Jews still did not believe that he had been blind

And had received his sight until they sent for the man's parents.

19 'Is this the one you say was born blind?

How is it that now he can see?'

20 'We know he is our son.' the parents answered,

'And we know he was born blind.

21 But how he can see now,

Or who opened his eyes, we don't know,

Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.'

22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews,

For already the Jews had decided

That anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ

Would be put out of the Synagogue.

23 That was why his parents said, 'He is of age; ask him.'

24 A second time they summoned the man who had been blind.

'Give Glory to God,' they said.

'We know this man is a sinner.'

25 He replied, 'Whether He is a sinner or not, I don't know.

ONE THING I DO KNOW. I WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE!'

26 Then they asked him, 'What did He do to you?

How did He open your eyes?'

27 He answered, 'I have told you already and you did not listen.

Why do you want to hear it again?

Do you want to become His Disciples, too?'

28 Then they hurled insults at him and said,

'You are this fellow's Disciple!

We are disciples of Moses!

We know that God spoke to Moses,

But as for this fellow, we don't even know where He comes from.'

30 The man answered, 'Now that is remarkable!

You don't know where He comes from,

Yet He opened my eyes.

31 WE KNOW THAT GOD DOES NOT LISTEN TO SINNERS.

HE LISTENS TO THE GODLY MAN WHO DOES HIS WILL.

32 NOBODY HAS EVER HEARD

OF OPENING THE EYES OF A MAN BORN BLIND.

33 IF THIS MAN WERE NOT FROM GOD, HE COULD DO NOTHING.'

34 To this they replied, 'You were steeped in Sin at birth;

How dare you lecture us!' And they threw him out.

(John 9:1-34)

Every Christian must understand that Night is coming,

When no one will be able to work.

This happens when the Holy Spirit is removed from the Earth,

After the Apostasy, the Great Falling Away,

From Faith in Christ takes place,

And the Antichrist is revealed.

(2 Thessalonians 2:1-7)

Christ Jesus is the only Light in this World,

All else is Darkness.

The Testimony of every Christian is the same

As the man born Blind;

ONE THING I DO KNOW.

I WAS BLIND BUT NOW I SEE!'

(John 9:1-34)