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Reading: John 9:1-11, 18-21,
24-25
As He
passed along, Jesus noticed a man blind from his birth. His disciples asked
Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born
blind?"
Jesus answered,
"It was not that this man or his parents sinned, but he was born blind in order
that the workings of God should be manifested in him. We must work the works of
the One Who sent Me and be busy with God's business while it is daylight; night
is coming on, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the
world's Light."
When He
had said this, He spat on the ground and made mud with His saliva, and He
spread it as ointment on the man's eyes.
And He said to him, "Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam"--which
means Sent.
So he went
and washed, and came back seeing. When the neighbors and those who used to know
him by sight as a beggar saw him, they said, "Is not this the man who used to
sit and beg?" Some said, "It is he." Others said, "No, but he looks very much
like him." But he said, "Yes, I am the man". So they said to him, "How were
your eyes opened?"
He
replied, "The Man called Jesus made mud and smeared it on my eyes and said to
me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.' So I went and washed, and I obtained my sight!"
However, the Jews did not believe that he had really been blind and that he had
received his sight until they called the parents of the man.
They asked them, "Is this your son, whom you
reported as having been born blind? How then does he see now?" His parents
answered, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. But as to
how he can now see, we do not know; or who has opened his eyes, we do not know.
He is of age. Ask him; let him speak for himself and give his own account of
it."
So the
second time they summoned the man who had been born blind, and said to him,
"Now give God the glory. This Fellow we know is only a sinner." Then he
answered, "I do not know whether He is a sinner and wicked or not. But one
thing I do know, that whereas I was blind before, now I see."
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