{"meta":{"source":"Prime Bible","sourceUrl":"https://primebible.com","license":"Public domain (translation text); see citation policy at /citation-policy","organization":"501(c)(3) nonprofit — EIN 41-2531951","canonicalUrl":"https://primebible.com/ylt/john/9","llmTxt":"https://primebible.com/llms.txt","generatedAt":"2026-06-17T09:28:40.913Z"},"reference":{"translation":"YLT","book":"John","bookSlug":"john","chapter":9,"testament":"NEW"},"navigation":{"previousChapter":8,"nextChapter":10,"totalChapters":21,"totalVerses":41},"verses":[{"verseNumber":1,"text":"And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,"},{"verseNumber":2,"text":"and his disciples asked him, saying, 'Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'"},{"verseNumber":3,"text":"Jesus answered, 'Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;"},{"verseNumber":4,"text":"it behoveth me to be working the works of Him who sent me while it is day; night doth come, when no one is able to work: — "},{"verseNumber":5,"text":"when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'"},{"verseNumber":6,"text":"These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,"},{"verseNumber":7,"text":"'Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;"},{"verseNumber":8,"text":"the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, 'Is not this he who is sitting and begging?'"},{"verseNumber":9,"text":"others said — 'This is he;' and others — 'He is like to him;' he himself said, — 'I am he.'"},{"verseNumber":10,"text":"They said, therefore, to him, 'How were thine eyes opened?'"},{"verseNumber":11,"text":"he answered and said, 'A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'"},{"verseNumber":12,"text":"they said, therefore, to him, 'Where is that one?' he saith, 'I have not known.'"},{"verseNumber":13,"text":"They bring him to the Pharisees who once was blind,"},{"verseNumber":14,"text":"and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes."},{"verseNumber":15,"text":"Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, 'Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash — and I see.'"},{"verseNumber":16,"text":"Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, 'This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;' others said, 'How is a man — a sinful one — able to do such signs?' and there was a division among them."},{"verseNumber":17,"text":"They said to the blind man again, 'Thou — what dost thou say of him — that he opened thine eyes?'"},{"verseNumber":18,"text":"and he said — 'He is a prophet.' The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight,"},{"verseNumber":19,"text":"and they asked them, saying, 'Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?'"},{"verseNumber":20,"text":"His parents answered them and said, 'We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;"},{"verseNumber":21,"text":"and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.'"},{"verseNumber":22,"text":"These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him — Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue;"},{"verseNumber":23,"text":"because of this his parents said — 'He is of age, ask him.'"},{"verseNumber":24,"text":"They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, 'Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;'"},{"verseNumber":25,"text":"he answered, therefore, and said, 'If he be a sinner — I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'"},{"verseNumber":26,"text":"And they said to him again, 'What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'"},{"verseNumber":27,"text":"He answered them, 'I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?'"},{"verseNumber":28,"text":"They reviled him, therefore, and said, 'Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples;"},{"verseNumber":29,"text":"we have known that God hath spoken to Moses, but this one — we have not known whence he is.'"},{"verseNumber":30,"text":"The man answered and said to them, 'Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!"},{"verseNumber":31,"text":"and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;"},{"verseNumber":32,"text":"from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind;"},{"verseNumber":33,"text":"if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'"},{"verseNumber":34,"text":"They answered and said to him, 'In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without."},{"verseNumber":35,"text":"Jesus heard that they cast him forth without, and having found him, he said to him, 'Dost thou believe in the Son of God?'"},{"verseNumber":36,"text":"he answered and said, 'Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?'"},{"verseNumber":37,"text":"And Jesus said to him, 'Thou hast both seen him, and he who is speaking with thee is he;'"},{"verseNumber":38,"text":"and he said, 'I believe, sir,' and bowed before him."},{"verseNumber":39,"text":"And Jesus said, 'For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'"},{"verseNumber":40,"text":"And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, 'Are we also blind?'"},{"verseNumber":41,"text":"Jesus said to them, 'If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say — We see, therefore doth your sin remain."}],"citation":{"inline":"John 9 (YLT)","markdown":"[John 9](https://primebible.com/ylt/john/9)","sbl":"Prime Bible. *The Bible.* YLT. https://primebible.com/ylt/john/9 (accessed 2026-06-17)."}}