[8:57] The Jews therefore said to him, "You are not yet fifty years old, and have you seen Abraham?"
[8:58] Jesus said to them, "Most certainly, I tell you, before Abraham came into existence, [I AM.]"
[8:59] Therefore they took up stones to throw at him, but Jesus was hidden, and went out of the temple, having gone through the midst of them, and so passed by.
[9:1] As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. [9:2] His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
[9:3] Jesus answered, "Neither did this man sin, nor his parents; but, that the works of God might be revealed in him. [9:4] I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work. [9:5] While I am in the world, I am the light of the world." [9:6] When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud, [9:7] and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means "Sent"). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing. [9:8] The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, "Isn't this he who sat and begged?" [9:9] Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him."
He said, "I am he." [9:10] They therefore were asking him, "How were your eyes opened?"
[9:11] 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."
[9:12] Then they asked him, "Where is he?"
He said, "I don't know."
[9:13] They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees. [9:14] It was a Sabbath when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. [9:15] 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."