1 And as he passed on, he saw a man blind from birth.2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this {man} or his parents, that he should be born blind?3 Jesus answered, Neither has this {man} sinned nor his parents, but that the works of God should be manifested in him.4 I must work the works of him that has sent me while it is day. {The} night is coming, when no one can work.5 As long as I am in the world, I am {the} light of the world.6 Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud of the spittle, and put the mud, as ointment, on his eyes.7 And he said to him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, which is interpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed, and came seeing.8 The neighbours therefore, and those who used to see him before, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that was sitting and begging?9 Some said, It is he; others said, No, but he is like him: *he* said, It is I.10 They said therefore to him, How have thine eyes been opened?11 He answered {and said}, A man called Jesus made mud and anointed mine eyes, and said to me, Go to Siloam and wash: and having gone and washed, I saw.12 They said therefore to him, Where is he? He says, I do not know.13 They bring him who was before blind to the Pharisees.14 Now it was sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.15 The Pharisees therefore also again asked him how he received his sight. And he said to them, He put mud upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I see.16 Some of the Pharisees therefore said, This man is not of God, for he does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a sinful man perform such signs? And there was a division among them.17 They say therefore again to the blind {man}, What dost thou say of him, that he has opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.18 The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him that he was blind and had received sight, until they had called the parents of him that had received sight.19 And they asked them saying, This is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind: how then does he now see?20 His parents answered {them} and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;21 but how he now sees we do not know, or who has opened his eyes we do not know. *He* is of age: ask *him*; *he* will speak concerning himself.22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if any one confessed him {to be the} Christ, he should be excommunicated from the synagogue.23 On this account his parents said, He is of age: ask *him*.24 They called therefore a second time the man who had been blind, and said to him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is sinful.25 He answered therefore, If he is sinful I know not. One thing I know, that, being blind {before}, now I see.26 And they said to him again, What did he do to thee? how opened he thine eyes?27 He answered them, I told you already and ye did not hear: why do ye desire to hear again? do ye also wish to become his disciples?28 They railed at him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.29 We know that God spoke to Moses; but {as to} this {man}, we know not whence he is.30 The man answered and said to them, Now in this is a wonderful thing, that *ye* do not know whence he is, and he has opened mine eyes.31 {But} we know that God does not hear sinners; but if any one be God-fearing and do his will, him he hears.32 Since time was, it has not been heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind.33 If this {man} were not of God he would be able to do nothing.34 They answered and said to him, Thou hast been wholly born in sins, and thou teachest us? And they cast him out.35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him, he said to him, Thou, dost thou believe on the Son of God?36 He answered and said, And who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him?37 And Jesus said to him, Thou hast both seen him, and he that speaks with thee is he.38 And he said, I believe, Lord: and he did him homage.39 And Jesus said, For judgment am I come into this world, that they which see not may see, and they which see may become blind.40 And {some} of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, Are we blind also?41 Jesus said to them, If ye were blind ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see, your sin remains.

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 man7 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.