1 Jesus, ao passar, viu um homem cego de nascença.2 Perguntaram-lhe seus discípulos: Mestre, quem pecou para que este homem nascesse cego, ele ou seus pais?3 Respondeu Jesus: Nem ele pecou nem seus pais, mas isto se deu para que as obras de Deus nele sejam manifestas.4 É necessário que façamos as obras do que me enviou, enquanto é dia; vem a noite, quando ninguém pode trabalhar.5 Estando eu no mundo, sou a luz do mundo.6 Tendo assim falado, cuspiu no chão e, fazendo lodo com o cuspo, aplicou-o aos olhos do cego,7 dizendo: Vai lavar-te no tanque de Siloé (que quer dizer, Enviado). Ele foi, lavou-se e voltou com vista.8 Então os vizinhos e os que dantes o conheciam de vista, como mendigo, perguntavam: Não é este o que se assentava para mendigar?9 É ele mesmo, respondiam uns; não é, mas é parecido com ele, diziam outros. Porém ele dizia: Sou eu mesmo.10 Perguntaram-lhe, pois: Como te foram abertos os olhos?11 Respondeu ele: Aquele homem chamado Jesus fez lodo, ungiu-me os olhos e disse-me: Vai a Siloé e lava-te; então fui, lavei-me e fiquei vendo.12 Eles lhe perguntaram: Onde está ele? Respondeu: Não sei.13 Levaram aos fariseus o que fora cego.14 Ora era sábado o dia em que Jesus fez lodo e lhe abriu os olhos.15 Então os fariseus por sua vez perguntaram-lhe como recebeu a vista. Ele respondeu: Aplicou lodo aos meus olhos, lavei-me e agora vejo.16 Por isso alguns dos fariseus diziam: Este homem não é de Deus, porque não guarda o sábado. Outros, porém, diziam: Como pode um homem pecador fazer tais milagres? Havia dissensão entre eles.17 Tornaram a perguntar ao cego: Que dizes tu a respeito dele, visto que te abriu os olhos? É profeta, respondeu ele.18 Mas os judeus não acreditaram que ele tivesse sido cego e que tivesse recebido a vista, enquanto não chamaram os pais dele,19 e os interrogaram: É este vosso filho, que vós dizeis ter nascido cego? como, pois, vê agora?20 Responderam seus pais: Sabemos que este é nosso filho e que nasceu cego;21 mas como agora vê, não sabemos; ou quem lhe abriu os olhos, nós não sabemos. Interrogai-o, já tem idade; ele mesmo falará por si.22 Isto disseram seus pais, porque tinham medo dos judeus; porquanto estes já tinham combinado que se alguém confessasse ser Jesus o Cristo, fosse expulso da sinagoga.23 Por isso disseram seus pais: Ele já tem idade, interrogai-o.24 Então chamaram pela segunda vez o homem que fora cego e lhe disseram: Dá glória a Deus; nós sabemos que este homem é pecador.25 Ele respondeu: Se é pecador, não sei; uma coisa sei: Eu era cego, e agora vejo.26 Perguntaram-lhe, pois: Que é o que te fez? como te abriu os olhos?27 Ele lhes respondeu: Já vo-lo disse, e não ouvistes; por que quereis ouvir outra vez? porventura quereis também vós tornar-vos seus discípulos?28 Injuriaram-no e disseram: Discípulo dele és tu; mas nós somos discípulos de Moisés.29 Nós sabemos que Deus falou a Moisés, mas este não sabemos donde ele é.30 Respondeu-lhes o homem: É maravilhoso que não saibais donde ele é; contudo ele me abriu os olhos.31 Sabemos que Deus não ouve a pecadores; mas se alguém temer a Deus e fizer a sua vontade, a este ele ouve.32 Desde que há mundo, nunca se ouviu que alguém abrisse os olhos a um cego de nascença.33 Se este homem não fosse de Deus, nada poderia fazer.34 Eles lhe replicaram: Tu nasceste todo em pecados, e tu nos estás ensinando? E lançaram-no fora.35 Soube Jesus que o haviam lançado fora e, encontrando-o, lhe perguntou: Crês tu no Filho do homem?36 Quem é ele, Senhor, para que eu creia nele? respondeu-lhe o homem.37 Disse-lhe Jesus: Já o viste, e é ele quem fala contigo.38 Ele disse: Creio, Senhor; e o adorou.39 Jesus prosseguiu: Eu vim a este mundo para um juízo, a fim de que os que não vêem, vejam; e os que vêem, se tornem cegos.40 Ouvindo isto alguns dos fariseus que estavam com ele, perguntaram-lhe: Porventura somos nós também cegos?41 Respondeu-lhes Jesus: Se fôsseis cegos, não teríeis pecado algum; mas agora dizeis: Nós vemos; fica subsistindo o vosso pecado.

1 As he was walking along, he observed a man who had been blind from birth.2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"3 Jesus answered,"Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so thatthe works of God might be revealed in him.4 Imust work the works of the one who sent mewhile it is day. 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 After saying this, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he spread the mud on the man's eyes7 and told him,"Go and wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated "Sent One"). So he went off and washed and came back seeing.8 Then the neighbors and those who had previously seen him as a beggar said, "This is the man who used to sit and beg, isn't it?"9 Some were saying, "It is he," while others were saying, "No, but it is someone like him."He himself kept saying, "It is I!"10 So they said to him, "How, then, were your eyes opened?"11 He said, "The man named Jesus made some mud, spread it on my eyes, and told me,‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So off I went and washed, and I received my sight."12 They said to him, "Where is that man?"He said, "I don't know!"13 So they brought to the Pharisees the man who had once been blind.14 Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.15 So the Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight. He told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."16 Some of the Pharisees began to remark, "This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath."But others were saying, "How can a sinful man perform such signs?" And there was a division among them.17 So they said again to the blind man, "What do you say about him, for it was your eyes he opened?"He said, "He is a prophet."18 The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had been given sight until they summoned his parents19 and asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How does he now see?"20 His parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.21 But we don't know how it is that he now sees, and we don't know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is of age and can speak for himself."22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ would be thrown out of the synagogue.23 That's why his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."24 So for a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, "Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner."25 But he responded, "I don't know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!"26 Then they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"27 He answered them, "I've already told you, but you didn't listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples, too, do you?"28 At this, they turned on him furiously and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from."30 The man answered them, "This is an amazing thing! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.31 We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will.32 Never since creation has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man who was born blind.33 If this man were not from God, he couldn't do anything like that."34 They said to him, "You were born entirely in sins, and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out.35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he said,"Do you believe in the Son of Man?"36 He answered, "And who is he, sir? Tell me, so that I may believe in him."37 Jesus said to him,"You have seen him. He is the person who is talking with you."38 He said, "Lord, I do believe," and worshiped him.39 Then Jesus said,"I have come into this world for judgment, so that those who are blind may see, and those who see may become blind."40 Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and said to him, "We aren't blind, too, are we?"41 Jesus told them,"If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, ‘We see,’ your sin remains."