"but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be
openly shown in him.
009:004 We must do the works of Him who sent me while there is daylight.
Night is coming on, when no one can work.
009:005 When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world."
009:006 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,
009:007 "Go and wash in the pool of Siloam"--the name means `Sent.'
So he went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.
009:008 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?"
009:009 "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."
009:010 "How then were your eyes opened?" they asked.
009:011 "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."
009:012 "Where is he?" they inquired, but the man did not know.
009:013 They brought him to the Pharisees--the man who had been blind.
009:014 Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened the man's
eyes was the Sabbath.
009:015 So the Pharisees renewed their questioning as to how he had
obtained his sight. "He put clay on my eyes," he replied,
"and I washed, and now I can see."
009:016 This led some of the Pharisees to say, "That man has not come
from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath." "How is it
possible for a bad man to do such miracles?" argued others.