46Which of you convicts me of sin? If I speak truth, why do ye not believe me? 47He that is of God hears God's words; ye therefore hear not, because ye are not of God.
48The Jews answered and said to him: Say we not well, that thou art a Samaritan, and hast a demon? 49Jesus answered: I have not a demon; but I honor my Father, and ye dishonor me. 50And I seek not my own glory; there is one that seeks, and judges. 51Verily, verily, I say to you, if any one keep my saying, he shall not see death, forever. 52The Jews said to him: Now we know that thou hast a demon. Abraham is dead, and the prophets; and thou sayest: If a man keep my saying, he shall not taste of death, forever. 53Art thou greater than our father Abraham, who is dead? And the prophets are dead. Whom makest thou thyself? 54Jesus answered: If I honor myself, my honor is nothing. It is my Father that honors me, of whom ye say, that he is your God. 55And ye know him not; but I know him. And if I say, I know him not, I shall be a liar like to you. But I know him, and I keep his word. 56Abraham, your father, rejoiced to see my day; and he saw it, and was glad. 57The Jews therefore said to him: Thou art not yet fifty years old, and hast thou seen Abraham? 58Jesus said to them: Verily, verily, I say to you, before Abraham was, I am. 59They took up stones therefore to cast at him. But Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.
IX. And passing along, he saw a man blind from his birth. 2And his disciples asked him, saying: Master, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind? 3Jesus answered: Neither this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. Night is coming, when none can work. 5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6Having thus spoken, he spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, 7and said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is interpreted, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
8The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sits and begs? 9Some said: This is he; and others: He is like him; he said: I am he. 10Therefore they said to him: How were thine eyes opened? 11He answered: A man called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash. And I went away and washed, and received sight. 12They said to him: Where is he? He said: I know not.
13They bring to the Pharisees him who before was blind. 14And it was the sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. 15Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him, how he received sight. He said to them: He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. 16Therefore some of the Pharisees said: This man is not from God, because he keeps not the sabbath. Others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was a division among them. 17They say to the blind man again: What sayest thou of him, seeing that he opened thine eyes? He said: He is a Prophet.
18The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he was blind and received sight, until they called the parents of him that received sight. 19And they asked them, saying: Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How then does he now see? 20His parents answered them and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. 21But by what means he now sees, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not. He is of age; ask him. He shall speak for himself. 22These words spoke his parents, because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had agreed already, that if any one acknowledged him as Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. 23Therefore his parents said: He is of age; ask him.
24They therefore called a second time the man that was blind, and said to him: Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner. 25He answered therefore: Whether he is a sinner, I know not; one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. 26They therefore said to him: What did he to thee? How opened he thine eyes? 27He answered them: I told you already, and ye did not hear. Wherefore would ye hear again? Will ye also become his disciples? 28They reviled him, and said: Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples. 29We know that God has spoken to Moses; but this man we know not, whence he is. 30The man answered and said to them: Why herein is a marvelous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and he opened mine eyes. 31Now we know that God hears not sinners. But if any one is a worshiper of God, and does his will, him he hears. 32Since the world began, it was not heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind. 33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing. 34They answered and said to him: Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
35Jesus heard that they cast him out; and finding him, he said to him: Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 36He answered and said: Who then is he, Lord, that I may believe on him? 37And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that talks with thee. 38And he said: Lord, I believe. And he worshiped him.
39And Jesus said: For judgment came I into this world; that they who see not may see, and that they who see may become blind. 40And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, and said to him: Are we also blind? 41Jesus said to them: If ye were blind, ye would not have sin. But now ye say: We see. Your sin remains!