--- title: "John 9 — World English Bible | Favorite Scriptures" description: "Read John 9 in the World English Bible. Free Bible reading, no account needed. Browse books and chapters, then save favorite passages in your personal library." last_updated: "2026-10-08" doc_version: "1" language: "en" canonical: "https://favoritescriptures.com/bible/john/9" --- [Home](/)/[Bible](/bible)/[John](/bible/john)/9 World English Bible # John 9 [1](#verse-1) As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. [2](#verse-2) His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” [3](#verse-3) Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him. [4](#verse-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](#verse-5) While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.” [6](#verse-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](#verse-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](#verse-8) Therefore the neighbors and those who saw that he was blind before said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?” [9](#verse-9) Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.” [10](#verse-10) They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?” [11](#verse-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](#verse-12) Then they asked him, “Where is he?” He said, “I don’t know.” [13](#verse-13) They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. [14](#verse-14) It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. [15](#verse-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](#verse-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](#verse-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](#verse-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](#verse-19) and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” [20](#verse-20) His parents answered them, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind; [21](#verse-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](#verse-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](#verse-23) Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.” [24](#verse-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](#verse-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](#verse-26) They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” [27](#verse-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](#verse-28) They insulted him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. [29](#verse-29) We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man, we don’t know where he comes from.” [30](#verse-30) The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. [31](#verse-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. [32](#verse-32) Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind. [33](#verse-33) If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” [34](#verse-34) They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out. [35](#verse-35) Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?” [36](#verse-36) He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?” [37](#verse-37) Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and it is he who speaks with you.” [38](#verse-38) He said, “Lord, I believe!” and he worshiped him. [39](#verse-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](#verse-40) Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?” [41](#verse-41) Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains. [← John 8](/bible/john/8)[John 10 →](/bible/john/10) World English Bible · Public domain ## Keep what speaks to you. Create a free library to save passages, highlight verses, and keep your study notes together. 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