1 Caminhando, viu Jesus um cego de nascença.

2 Os seus discípulos indagaram dele: Mestre, quem pecou, este homem ou seus pais, para que nascesse cego?

3 Jesus respondeu: Nem este pecou nem seus pais, mas é necessário que nele se manifestem as obras de Deus.

4 Enquanto for dia, cumpre-me terminar as obras daquele que me enviou. Virá a noite, na qual já ninguém pode trabalhar.

5 Por isso, enquanto estou no mundo, sou a luz do mundo.

6 Dito isso, cuspiu no chão, fez um pouco de lodo com a saliva e com o lodo ungiu os olhos do cego.

7 Depois lhe disse: Vai, lava-te na piscina de Siloé {esta palavra significa emissário}. O cego foi, lavou-se e voltou vendo.

8 Então os vizinhos e aqueles que antes o tinham visto mendigar perguntavam: Não é este aquele que, sentado, mendigava?

9 Respondiam alguns: É ele. Outros contestavam: De nenhum modo, é um parecido com ele. Ele, porém, dizia: Sou eu mesmo.

10 Perguntaram-lhe, então: Como te foram abertos os olhos?

11 Respondeu ele: Aquele homem que se chama Jesus fez lodo, ungiu-me os olhos e disse-me: Vai à piscina de Siloé e lava-te. Fui, lavei-me e vejo.

12 Interrogaram-no: Onde está esse homem? Respondeu: Não o sei.

13 Levaram então o que fora cego aos fariseus.

14 Ora, era sábado quando Jesus fez o lodo e lhe abriu os olhos.

15 Os fariseus indagaram dele novamente de que modo ficara vendo. Respondeu-lhes: Pôs-me lodo nos olhos, lavei-me e vejo.

16 Diziam alguns dos fariseus: Este homem não é o enviado de Deus, pois não guarda sábado. Outros replicavam: Como pode um pecador fazer tais prodígios? E havia desacordo entre eles.

17 Perguntaram ainda ao cego: Que dizes tu daquele que te abriu os olhos? É um profeta, respondeu ele.

18 Mas os judeus não quiseram admitir que aquele homem tivesse sido cego e que tivesse recobrado a vista, até que chamaram seus pais.

19 E os interrogaram: É este o vosso filho? Afirmais que ele nasceu cego? Pois como é que agora vê?

20 Seus pais responderam: Sabemos que este é o nosso filho e que nasceu cego.

21 Mas não sabemos como agora ficou vendo, nem quem lhe abriu os olhos. Perguntai-o a ele. Tem idade. Que ele mesmo explique.

22 Seus pais disseram isso porque temiam os judeus, pois os judeus tinham ameaçado expulsar da sinagoga todo aquele que reconhecesse Jesus como o Cristo.

23 Por isso é que seus pais responderam: Ele tem idade, perguntai-lho.

24 Tornaram a chamar o homem que fora cego, dizendo-lhe: Dá glória a Deus! Nós sabemos que este homem é pecador.

25 Disse-lhes ele: Se esse homem é pecador, não o sei... Sei apenas isto: sendo eu antes cego, agora vejo.

26 Perguntaram-lhe ainda uma vez: Que foi que ele te fez? Como te abriu os olhos?

27 Respondeu-lhes: Eu já vo-lo disse e não me destes ouvidos. Por que quereis tornar a ouvir? Quereis vós, porventura, tornar-vos também seus discípulos?...

28 Então eles o cobriram de injúrias e lhe disseram: Tu que és discípulo dele! Nós somos discípulos de Moisés.

29 Sabemos que Deus falou a Moisés, mas deste não sabemos de onde ele é.

30 Respondeu aquele homem: O que é de admirar em tudo isso é que não saibais de onde ele é, e entretanto ele me abriu os olhos.

31 Sabemos, porém, que Deus não ouve a pecadores, mas atende a quem lhe presta culto e faz a sua vontade.

32 Jamais se ouviu dizer que alguém tenha aberto os olhos a um cego de nascença.

33 Se esse homem não fosse de Deus, não poderia fazer nada.

34 Responderam-lhe eles: Tu nasceste todo em pecado e nos ensinas?... E expulsaram-no.

35 Jesus soube que o tinham expulsado e, havendo-o encontrado, perguntou-lhe: Crês no Filho do Homem?

36 Respondeu ele: Quem é ele, Senhor, para que eu creia nele?

37 Disse-lhe Jesus: Tu o vês, é o mesmo que fala contigo!

38 Creio, Senhor, disse ele. E, prostrando-se, o adorou.

39 Jesus então disse: Vim a este mundo para fazer uma discriminação: os que não vêem vejam, e os que vêem se tornem cegos.

40 Alguns dos fariseus, que estavam com ele, ouviram-no e perguntaram-lhe: Também nós somos, acaso, cegos?...

41 Respondeu-lhes Jesus: Se fôsseis cegos, não teríeis pecado, mas agora pretendeis ver, e o vosso pecado subsiste.

1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7 And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

8 The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? 9 Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he. 10 Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened? 11 He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight. 12 Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.

13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. 14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. 15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. 16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. 17 They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. 18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. 19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth 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 by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. 22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. 24 Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a sinner. 25 He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. 26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? 27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples? 28 Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples. 29 We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. 30 The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. 31 Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him he heareth. 32 Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind. 33 If this man were not of God, he could do nothing. 34 They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. 35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? 37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. 38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.

39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. 40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.