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The Holy Gospel of Jesus Christ According to Saint John
Chapter 9
He gives sight to the man born blind.
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And Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth. |
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And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind? |
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Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. |
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I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. |
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As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. |
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When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes, |
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And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which is interpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed: and he came seeing. |
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The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This is he. |
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But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he. |
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They said therefore to him: How were thy eyes opened? |
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He answered: That man that is called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe and wash. And I went: I washed: and I see. |
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And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not. |
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They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees. |
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Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. |
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Again therefore the Pharisees asked him how he had received his sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes: and I washed: and I see. |
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Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. |
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They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest thou of him that hath opened thy eyes? And he said: He is a prophet. |
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The Jews then did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight, |
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And asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then doth he now see? |
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His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son and that he was born blind: |
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But how he now seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes, we know not. Ask himself: he is of age: Let him speak for himself. |
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These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. |
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Therefore did his parents say: He is of age. Ask himself. |
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They therefore called the man again that had been blind and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner. |
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He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not. One thing I know, that whereas I was blind. now I see. |
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They said then to him: What did he to thee? How did he open thy eyes? |
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He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard. Why would you hear it again? Will you also become his disciples? |
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They reviled him therefore and said: Be thou his disciple; but we are the disciples of Moses. |
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We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not from whence he is. |
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The man answered and said to them: why, herein is a wonderful thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened my eyes. |
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Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God and doth his, will, him he heareth. |
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From the beginning of the world it hath not been heard, that any man hath opened the eyes of one born blind. |
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Unless this man were of God, he could not do anything. |
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They answered and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins; and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. |
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Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said to him: Dost thou believe in the Son of God? |
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He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him? |
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And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him; and it is he that talketh with thee. |
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And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him. |
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And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world: that they who see not may see; and they who see may become blind. |
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And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they said unto him: Are we also blind? |
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Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth. |
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