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Son of Man

Dost thou believe on the Son of man? ~John 9:35

CHAPTER 9: VERSE 1

And passing by he saw a man blind from his birth.

VERSE 2

And his disciples asked him, saying:

DISCIPLES

Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his
parents, that he was born blind?

VERSE 3

Jesus answered:

JESUS

Neither this man sinned nor his
parents, but that the works of God
might be manifested in him.

VERSE 4

JESUS

We must work the works of him that
sent us while it is day: there
comes night, when no man can work.

VERSE 5

JESUS

While I am in the world, I am the
Light of the world.

VERSE 6

He said these things, and spat on the ground, and made clay
of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,

VERSE 7

And said to him:

JESUS

Go wash in the pool of Siloam,
which is, translated. Sent. He went
therefore and washed, and came
seeing.

VERSE 8

The neighbors therefore, and those that had seen him before,
that he was a beggar, said:

NEIGHBORS

Is not this he that sat and begged?

VERSE 9

Others said that this is he;

Others said:

MEN

No, but he is like him.

He said:

BEGGAR

I am he.

VERSE 10

They therefore said to him:

MEN

How were thy eyes opened?

VERSE 11

He answered:

BEGGAR

The man that is called Jesus made
clay and anointed my eyes, and said
to me: Go to Siloam and wash.
Having gone therefore and washed, I
received sight.

VERSE 12

They said to him:

MEN

Where is he?

He says:

BEGGAR

I know not.

VERSE 13

They bring to the Pharisees him that was formerly blind.

VERSE 14

And it was a sabbath on the day in which Jesus made clay and
opened his eyes.

VERSE 15

Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had
received sight.

He said to them:

BEGGAR

He put clay upon my eyes and I
washed and do see.

VERSE 16

Some of the Pharisees therefore said:

PHARISEES

This man is not from God, for he
keeps not the sabbath.

Others said:

MEN

How can a man a sinner do such
signs?

And there was a division among them.

VERSE 17

They say therefore to the blind man again:

PHARISEES

What sayest thou of him, because he
has opened thy eyes?

He said:

BEGGAR

He is a prophet.

VERSE 18

The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he
was blind and had received sight, till they had called the
parents of him that had received sight,

VERSE 19

…and asked them, saying:

JEWS

Is this your son, of whom you say
that he was born blind? How, then,
does he now see?

VERSE 20

His parents therefore answered and said:

PARENTS

We know that this is our son, and
that he was born blind;

VERSE 21

PARENTS

…but how he now sees we know not,
or who opened his eyes we know not:
ask him; he is of age: he shall
speak for himself

VERSE 22

These things said his parents because they feared the Jews;
for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should
confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the
synagogue.

VERSE 23

For this reason his parents said that he is of age, ask him.

VERSE 24

They therefore a second time called the man that had been
blind, and said to him:

JEWS

Give glory to God: we know that
this man is a sinner.

VERSE 25

He then answered:

BEGGAR

If he is a sinner, I know not: one
thing I know, that, being blind, I
now see.

VERSE 26

They said therefore to him:

JEWS

What did he for thee? How opened he
thy eyes?

VERSE 27

He answered them:

BEGGAR

I have told you already, and you
did not hear: why will you hear
again? Will you also become his
disciples?

VERSE 28

They reviled him and said:

JEWS

Thou art a disciple of that man,
but we are Moses’ disciples.

VERSE 29

JEWS

…we know that God spoke to Moses,
but this man, we know not whence he
is.

VERSE 30

The man answered and said to them:

BEGGAR

Why, in this is that which is
wonderful, that you know not whence
he is, and yet he has opened my
eyes.

VERSE 31

BEGGAR

We know that God hears not sinners,
but if anyone be a worshiper of God
and do his will, him he hears.

VERSE 32

BEGGAR

Never was it heard that any one
opened the eyes of one that had
been born blind:

VERSE 33

BEGGAR

…if this man were not of God, he
could do nothing.

VERSE 34

They answered and said to him:

JEWS

Thou wast altogether born in sins,
and dost thou teach us?

And they cast him out.

VERSE 35

Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and he found him and
said:

JESUS

Dost thou believe on the Son of
man?

VERSE 36

He answered and said:

BEGGAR

And who is he, Lord, that I may
believe on him?

VERSE 37

Jesus said to him:

JESUS

Thou hast both seen him, and he it
is that talks with thee.

VERSE 38

He said:

BEGGAR

Lord, I believe;

…and he worshiped him.

VERSE 39

And Jesus said:

JESUS

For judgment have I come into this
world, that those that see not may
see, and that those that see may
become blind.

VERSE 40

Some of the Pharisees that were with him heard, and said to
him:

PHARISEES

Are we also blind?

VERSE 41

Jesus said to them:

JESUS

If you were blind, you would not
have sin; but now you say: We see:
your sin remains.