1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

3 Jesus answered, "This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him. 4 I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. 5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." 6 When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud, 7 and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

8 Therefore the neighbors and those who saw that he was blind before said, "Isn’t this he who sat and begged?" 9 Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him."

He said, "I am he."

10 They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"

11 He answered, "A man called Jesus made mud, anointed my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and I received sight."

12 Then they asked him, "Where is he?"

He said, "I don’t know."

13 They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. 14 It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, "He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see."

16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath."

Others said, "How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?" So there was division among them.

17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, "What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?"

He said, "He is a prophet."

18 The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight, 19 and asked them, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?"

20 His parents answered them, "We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; 21 but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself." 22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. 23 Therefore his parents said, "He is of age. Ask him."

24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner."

25 He therefore answered, "I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see."

26 They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"

27 He answered them, "I told you already, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t also want to become his disciples, do you?"

28 They insulted him and said, "You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from."

30 The man answered them, "How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31 We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does his will, he listens to him. 32 Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. 33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."

34 They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" Then they threw him out.

35 Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

36 He answered, "Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?"

37 Jesus said to him, "You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you."

38 He said, "Lord, I believe!" and he worshiped him.

39 Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment, that those who don’t see may see; and that those who see may become blind."

40 Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, "Are we also blind?"

41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore 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 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.