1 En toe Hy verbygaan, sien Hy 'n man wat blind was van sy geboorte af.
2 En sy dissipels vra Hom en sê: Rabbi, wie het gesondig, hierdie man of sy ouers, dat hy blind gebore is?
3 Jesus antwoord: Hy het nie gesondig nie, en sy ouers ook nie; maar die werke van God moet in hom openbaar word.
4 Ek moet die werke doen van Hom wat My gestuur het, so lank as dit dag is; die nag kom wanneer niemand kan werk nie.
5 So lank as Ek in die wêreld is, is Ek die lig van die wêreld.
6 En toe Hy dit gesê het, spuug Hy op die grond en maak klei van die spuug en smeer die klei aan die oë van die blinde man
7 en sê vir hom: Gaan was jou in die badwater Siloam, wat vertaal word: Uitgestuur. En hy het gegaan en hom gewas; en hy het siende teruggekom.
8 Die bure dan en die wat hom vroeër gesien het dat hy blind was, sê toe: Is hy nie die een wat gesit en bedel het nie?
9 Ander sê: Dit is hy. Ander weer: Hy lyk na hom. Hy antwoord: Dit is ek.
10 Hulle sê vir hom: Hoe is jou oë geopen?
11 Hy antwoord en sê: Die man wat Jesus genoem word, het klei gemaak en op my oë gesmeer en vir my gesê: Gaan na die badwater Siloam en was jou. En ek het gegaan en my gewas en ek sien.
12 En hulle sê vir hom: Waar is Hy? Hy antwoord: Ek weet nie.
13 Hulle bring hom na die Fariseërs -- die man wat vroeër blind was.
14 En dit was sabbat toe Jesus die klei gemaak en sy oë geopen het.
15 Die Fariseërs vra hom toe weer hoe hy siende geword het. En hy antwoord hulle: Hy het klei op my oë gesit, en ek het my gewas en ek sien.
16 En sommige van die Fariseërs sê: Hierdie man kom nie van God nie, omdat Hy die sabbat nie hou nie. Ander sê: Hoe kan 'n sondige mens sulke tekens doen? En daar was verdeeldheid onder hulle.
17 Weer sê hulle vir die blinde man: Jy, wat sê jy van Hom, aangesien Hy jou oë geopen het? En hy antwoord: Hy is 'n profeet.
18 En die Jode het dit nie van hom geglo dat hy blind was en siende geword het nie, totdat hulle die ouers geroep het van hom wat siende geword het.
19 En hulle vra hul en sê: Is dit julle seun van wie julle sê dat hy blind gebore is? Hoe sien hy dan nou?
20 Sy ouers antwoord hulle en sê: Ons weet dat hy ons seun is en dat hy blind gebore is;
21 maar hoe hy nou sien, weet ons nie; of wie sy oë geopen het, weet ons nie. Hy is self oud genoeg, vra hom; hy sal vir homself praat.
22 Dit het sy ouers gesê omdat hulle bang was vir die Jode; want die Jode het al ooreengekom dat as iemand Hom as die Christus bely, hy uit die sinagoge geban sou word.
23 Daarom het sy ouers gesê: Hy is oud genoeg, vra hom.
24 Hulle roep toe vir die tweede keer die man wat blind was, en sê vir hom: Gee aan God die eer; ons weet dat hierdie man 'n sondaar is.
25 En hy antwoord en sê: Of Hy 'n sondaar is, weet ek nie. Een ding weet ek: dat ek blind was en nou sien.
26 En hulle sê weer vir hom: Wat het Hy vir jou gedoen? Hoe het Hy jou oë geopen?
27 Hy antwoord hulle: Ek het julle dit alreeds gesê, en julle het nie geluister nie. Waarom wil julle dit weer hoor? Julle wil tog nie ook sy dissipels word nie?
28 Hulle skel hom toe uit en sê: Jy is 'n dissipel van daardie man, maar ons is dissipels van Moses.
29 Ons weet dat God met Moses gespreek het; maar wat Hom betref, ons weet nie van waar Hy is nie.
30 Die man antwoord en sê vir hulle: Hierin is tog iets wonderliks dat julle nie weet van waar Hy is nie, en Hy het my oë geopen!
31 En ons weet dat God nie sondaars verhoor nie; maar as iemand godvresend is en sy wil doen, die verhoor Hy.
32 Van ouds af is dit nie gehoor dat iemand die oë van 'n blindgebore mens geopen het nie.
33 As Hy nie van God was nie, sou Hy niks kan doen nie.
34 Hulle antwoord en sê vir hom: Jy is heeltemal in sondes gebore, en leer jy ons? En hulle het hom uitgeban.
35 Jesus het gehoor dat hulle hom uitgeban het; en toe Hy hom kry, sê Hy vir hom: Glo jy in die Seun van God?
36 Hy antwoord en sê: Wie is Hy, Here, dat ek in Hom kan glo?
37 En Jesus sê vir hom: Jy het Hom gesien; en Hy wat met jou spreek, dit is Hy.
38 Toe sê hy: Ek glo, Here! En hy het Hom aanbid.
39 En Jesus sê: Tot 'n oordeel het Ek in hierdie wêreld gekom, sodat die wat nie sien nie, mag sien, en die wat sien, blind mag word.
40 En die van die Fariseërs wat by Hom was, het dit gehoor en vir Hom gesê: Is ons dan ook blind?
41 Jesus antwoord hulle: As julle blind was, sou julle geen sonde hê nie; maar nou sê julle: Ons sien! Daarom bly julle sonde.
1 And when he went on his way, he saw a man blind from birth.
2 And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?
3 Jesus said in answer, It was not because of his sin, or because of his father's or mother's; it was so that the works of God might be seen openly in him.
4 While it is day we have to do the works of him who sent me: the night comes when no work may be done.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6 Having said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's eyes,
7 And said to him, Go and make yourself clean in the bath of Siloam (the sense of the name is, Sent). So he went away and, after washing, came back able to see.
8 Then the neighbours and others who had seen him before in the street, with his hand out for money, said, Is not this the man who got money from people?
9 Some said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he.
10 So they said to him, How then were your eyes made open?
11 His answer was: The man who is named Jesus put earth mixed with water on my eyes, and said to me, Go and make yourself clean in Siloam: so I went away and, after washing, am now able to see.
12 And they said to him, Where is he? His answer was: I have no knowledge.
13 They took him before the Pharisees--this man who had been blind.
14 Now the day on which the earth was mixed by Jesus and the man's eyes were made open was the Sabbath.
15 So the Pharisees put more questions to him about how his eyes had been made open. And he said to them, He put earth on my eyes, and I had a wash and am able to see.
16 Then some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such signs? So there was a division among them.
17 Again they said to the blind man, What have you to say about him for opening your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.
18 Now the Jews had no belief in the statement that he had been blind and was now able to see, till they sent for the father and mother of the man whose eyes had been made open,
19 And put the question to them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he was blind at birth? how is it then that he is now able to see?
20 In answer his father and mother said, We are certain that this is our son and that he was blind at birth:
21 But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.
22 They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.
23 That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.
24 So they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him, Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner.
25 He said in answer, I have no knowledge if he is a sinner or not, but one thing I am certain about; I was blind, and now I see.
26 Then they said to him, What did he do to you? how did he give you the use of your eyes?
27 His answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples?
28 And they were angry with him and said, You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.
29 We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.
30 The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.
31 We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.
32 In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.
33 If this man did not come from God he would be unable to do anything.
34 Their answer was: You came to birth through sin; do you make yourself our teacher? And they put him out of the Synagogue.
35 It came to the ears of Jesus that they had put him out, and meeting him he said, Have you faith in the Son of man?
36 He said in answer, And who is he, Lord? Say, so that I may have faith in him.
37 Jesus said to him, You have seen him; it is he who is talking to you.
38 And he said, Lord, I have faith. And he gave him worship.
39 And Jesus said, I came into this world to be a judge, so that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.
40 These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?
41 Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.