wmth - John:9:1-12

wmth@John:9:1 @ As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

wmth@John:9:2 @ So His disciples asked Him, »Rabbi, who sinned –this man or his parents– that he was born blind?«

wmth@John:9:3 @ »Neither he nor his parents sinned,« answered Jesus, »but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.

wmth@John:9:4 @ We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight. Night is coming on, when no one can work.

wmth@John:9:5 @ When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world.«

wmth@John:9:6 @ After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him,

wmth@John:9:7 @ »Go and wash in the pool of Siloam« –the name means `Sent.' So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.

wmth@John:9:8 @ His neighbours, therefore, and the other people to whom he had been a familiar object because he was a beggar, began asking, »Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?«

wmth@John:9:9 @ »Yes it is,« replied some of them. »No it is not,« said others, »but he is like him.« His own statement was, »I am the man.«

wmth@John:9:10 @ »How then were your eyes opened?« they asked.

wmth@John:9:11 @ »He whose name is Jesus,« he answered, »made clay and smeared my eyes with it, and then told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and obtained sight.«

wmth@John:9:12 @ »Where is he?« they inquired, but the man did not know.