Jesus

The Jews, therefore, said unto him, `Thou art not yet fifty years old, and Abraham hast thou seen?'

Jesus said to them, `Verily, verily, I say to you, Before Abraham's coming--I am;'

they took up, therefore, stones that they may cast at him, but Jesus hid himself, and went forth out of the temple, going through the midst of them, and so passed by.

And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,

and his disciples asked him, saying, `Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'

Jesus answered, `Neither did this one sin nor his parents, but that the works of God may be manifested in him;

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: --

when I am in the world, I am a light of the world.'

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,

`Go away, wash at the pool of Siloam,' which is, interpreted, Sent. He went away, therefore, and did wash, and came seeing;

others said--`This is he;' and others--`He is like to him;' he himself said, --`I am he .'

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;'

they said, therefore, to him, `Where is that one?' he saith, `I have not known.'

and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

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.

They said to the blind man again, `Thou--what dost thou say of him--that he opened thine eyes?'

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;

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;'

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.'

And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'

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?'

They reviled him, therefore, and said, `Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples;

we have known that God hath spoken to Moses, but this one--we have not known whence he is.'

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!

if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'