João 9

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.✝9:31 Psalms 66:18; Proverbs 15:29; 28:9 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.

Ka Whakaora a Īhu i tētahi Tangata i Matapō nō tōna Whānautanga mai anō

1 Nā, i a Īhu e haere ana, ka kite ia i tētahi tangata i matapō, nō tōna whānautanga mai anō. 2 Nā, ka ui āna ākonga ki a ia, ka mea, "E te Kaiwhakaako, ko wai i hara, ko tēnei, ko ōna mātua rānei i whānau matapō ai ia?"

3 Ka whakahokia e Īhu, "Ehara i te mea ko tēnei kua hara, ko ōna mātua rānei; engari, kia ai ia hei whakakitenga mō ngā mahi a te Atua. 4 Me mahi e tātou ngā mahi a tōku kaitono mai i te mea e ao ana; meāke ko te pō e kore ai e taea he mahi e tētahi tangata. 5 I ahau i te ao nei, ko ahau te mārama o te ao."

6 Ka mutu ēnei kōrero āna, ka tūwha ia ki te whenua, ā, pokepokea ana tētahi paru ki te hūware, pania atu ana te paru ki ngā kanohi o te matapō, 7 nā, ka mea ki a ia, "Haere ki te horoi ki te kaukauranga i Hiroama" (ko Tono te whakamāoritanga). Nā, haere ana ia, horoi ana, ā, hoki titiro ana mai.

8 Nā, ka mea ngā tāngata e noho tata ana, rātou ko ngā tāngata i kite i tōna matapōtanga i mua, "Ehara ianei tēnei i taua tangata i noho rā, i tono mea rā māna?"

9 Ka mea ētahi, "Ko ia tēnei."

Ko ētahi i mea, "Kāhore, engari rite tonu ki a ia te āhua."

Ka mea ia, "Ko ahau rā ia."

10 Kātahi rātou ka mea ki a ia, "Nā te aha rā i kite ai ōu kanohi?"

11 Ka whakahoki ia ka mea, "Nā te tangata, e huaina nei ko Īhu, i pokepoke he paru, pania ana e ia ki ōku kanohi, ka mea mai ki ahau, ‘Haere ki Hiroama horoi ai.’ Nā, ko tōku haerenga atu, ko tāku horoinga, kite ana ahau."

12 Nā, ka mea rātou ki a ia, "Kei hea ia?"

Ka mea ia, "E kore ahau e mōhio."

Ka Tirotiro ngā Parihi i te Whakaoranga

13 Ka kawea atu ki ngā Parihi taua tangata i matapō i mua rā. 14 Nā, nō te hāpati i pokepokea ai e Īhu te paru, i meinga ai ōna kanohi kia kite. 15 Nā, ka ui anō ngā Parihi ki a ia, ki te pēhea i kite ai ia. Ka mea ia ki a rātou, "I pania e ia he paru ki ōku kanohi, nā, horoi ana ahau, kite ana."

16 Nā, ka mea ētahi o ngā Parihi, "Ehara tēnei i te tangata nā te Atua, inā hoki tē whakarite ia i te hāpati."

Ka mea ētahi, "Mā te aha e taea ai ēnei merekara e te tangata hara?"

Nā, ka wehewehea rātou.

17 Ka mea anō rātou ki te matapō, "E pēhea ana koe ki a ia, ki tāna meatanga i ōu kanohi kia kite?"

Ka mea ia, "He poropiti ia."

18 Heoi, kāhore ngā Hūrai i whakapono i matapō taua tangata, kua meinga anō kia kite, karangatia noatia e rātou ngā mātua ōna i meinga nei kia kite, 19 ā, ka ui rātou ki a rāua, ka mea, "Ko tā kōrua tama tēnei, e mea nei kōrua i whānau matapō mai? Nā te aha rā ia i titiro ai ināianei?"

20 Ka whakahoki ōna mātua ki a rātou, ka mea, "E mōhio ana māua, ko tā māua tama tēnei, i whānau matapō mai anō. 21 Ko te mea ia i kite ai ia ināianei, kāhore i mōhiotia e māua; kāhore hoki māua e mōhio nā wai i mea ōna kanohi kia kite. He kaumātua ia; ui atu ki a ia, māna ia e kōrero." 22 I pēnei ōna mātua, nō te mea i mataku rāua i ngā Hūrai. Kua takoto noa ake hoki tā ngā Hūrai tikanga, nā, ki te whakaae tētahi, ko te Karaiti ia, me pei ki waho o te whare karakia. 23 Koia ōna mātua i mea ai, "He kaumātua ia; ui atu ki a ia."

24 Nā, ka karanga tuarua rātou ki te tangata i matapō i mua rā, ka mea ki a ia, "Hoatu he korōria ki te Atua; e mātau ana mātou he tangata hara tēnei."

25 Nā, ka whakahoki ia, ka mea, "Kāhore ahau e mātau he tangata hara rānei ia; kotahi anō tāku e mātau nei, he matapō ahau i mua, ā, inā kua kite."

26 Ka mea anō rātou ki a ia, "I aha ia ki a koe? I pēheatia ōu kanohi i meinga ai e ia kia kite?"

27 Ka whakahokia e ia ki a rātou, "Kua kōrerotia anō e ahau ki a koutou inā tonu nei, ā, kīhai koutou i whakarongo. He aha koutou i hiahia ai kia rongo anō? E mea ana oti koutou kia meinga hei ākonga māna?"

28 Nā, whakahī ana rātou ki a ia, ka mea, "Ko tāna ākonga koe; ko mātou ia he ākonga nā Mohi. 29 E mātau ana mātou i kōrero te Atua ki a Mohi; ko tēnei tangata ia kāhore mātou e mātau ki tōna wāhi i haere mai ai."

30 Nā, ka whakahoki taua tangata, ka mea ki a rātou, "Ha! He mea whakamīharo rā tēnei kāhore koutou i mātau ki tōna wāhi i haere mai ai, otirā, kua meinga e ia ōku kanohi kia kite. 31 E mātau ana rā tātou, e kore te Atua e whakarongo ki ngā tāngata hara; tēnā ki te mea he tangata karakia tētahi ki te Atua, he mea i tāna e pai ai, ka whakarongo ia ki a ia. 32 Kāhore rawa i rangona nō te tīmatanga rā anō o te ao, i whakatirohia e tētahi ngā kanohi o te tangata i whānau matapō. 33 Ki te mea kīhai i puta mai tēnei tangata i te Atua, e kore e taea e ia tētahi mea."

34 Nā, ka whakahoki rātou, ka mea ki a ia, "I whānau pū koe i roto i ngā hara, ko koe rānei hei whakaako i a mātou?" Nā, peia ana ia e rātou ki waho.

Te Matapō Wairuatanga

35 I rongo a Īhu kua oti ia te pei e rātou ki waho; ā, i tōna kitenga i a ia, ka mea ki a ia, "E whakapono ana rānei koe ki te Tama a te Atua?"

36 Ka whakahoki ia, ka mea, "Ko wai ia, e te Ariki, kia whakapono ai ahau ki a ia?"

37 Ka mea a Īhu ki a ia, "Kua kite koe i a ia, ko ia hoki tēnei e kōrero nei ki a koe."

38 Nā, ko tāna meatanga, "E te Ariki, e whakapono ana ahau." Nā, koropiko ana ia ki a ia.

39 Kātahi a Īhu ka mea, "I haere mai ahau ki tēnei ao ki te whakarite whakawā, he mea e kite ai te hunga kāhore nei i kite; e whakamatapōtia ai hoki te hunga e kite ana."

40 Ā, ka rangona ēnei mea e ētahi o ngā Parihi e tū tahi ana me ia, ka mea rātou ki a ia, "E matapō ana anō rānei mātou?"

41 Ka mea a Īhu ki a rātou, "Me i matapō koutou, kāhore ō koutou hara. Tēnā ka mea nā koutou, ‘E kite ana mātou’; nā, e mau nā tō koutou hara."