Welcome to our website where we explore the Bible! Pleasure to meet you here!
May your journey into the world of the Holy Scriptures be engaging and inspiring!
You can change reading language: uk ru
Parallel
New International Version
New King James Version
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
As he went along, he saw a man blind from birth.
A Man Born Blind Receives Sight
Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.
Now as Jesus passed by, He saw a man who was blind from birth.
His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
And His disciples asked Him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
“Neither this man nor his parents sinned,” said Jesus, “but this happened so that the works of God might be displayed in him.
Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be revealed in him.
As long as it is day, we must do the works of him who sent me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
After saying this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.
When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.
“Go,” he told him, “wash in the Pool of Siloam” (this word means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came home seeing.
And He said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So he went and washed, and came back seeing.
His neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging asked, “Isn’t this the same man who used to sit and beg?”
Some claimed that he was.
Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
Others said, “No, he only looks like him.”
But he himself insisted, “I am the man.”
“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”
“Where is this man?” they asked him.
“I don’t know,” he said.
“I don’t know,” he said.
Then they said to him, “Where is He?”
He said, “I do not know.”
He said, “I do not know.”
The Pharisees Investigate the Healing
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
The Pharisees Excommunicate the Healed Man
They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees.
They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees.
Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath.
Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”
Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”
But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.
But others asked, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So they were divided.
Then they turned again to the blind man, “What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened.”
The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
The man replied, “He is a prophet.”
They said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him because He opened your eyes?”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
He said, “He is a prophet.”
They still did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight until they sent for the man’s parents.
But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight.
“Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”
And they asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
“We know he is our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind.
His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;
But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.”
but by what means he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.”
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
A second time they summoned the man who had been blind. “Give glory to God by telling the truth,” they said. “We know this man is a sinner.”
So they again called the man who was blind, and said to him, “Give God the glory! We know that this Man is a sinner.”
He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”
He answered and said, “Whether He is a sinner or not I do not know. One thing I know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
Then they said to him again, “What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?”
He answered, “I have told you already and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples too?”
He answered them, “I told you already, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”
Then they hurled insults at him and said, “You are this fellow’s disciple! We are disciples of Moses!
Then they reviled him and said, “You are His disciple, but we are Moses’ disciples.
We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don’t even know where he comes from.”
We know that God spoke to Moses; as for this fellow, we do not know where He is from.”
The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.
The man answered and said to them, “Why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know where He is from; yet He has opened my eyes!
We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly person who does his will.
Now we know that God does not hear sinners; but if anyone is a worshiper of God and does His will, He hears him.
Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind.
Since the world began it has been unheard of that anyone opened the eyes of one who was born blind.
If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
If this Man were not from God, He could do nothing.”
To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.
Spiritual Blindness
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
“Who is he, sir?” the man asked. “Tell me so that I may believe in him.”
He answered and said, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?”
Jesus said, “You have now seen him; in fact, he is the one speaking with you.”
And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and it is He who is talking with you.”
Then the man said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.
Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he worshiped Him.
And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”
Some Pharisees who were with him heard him say this and asked, “What? Are we blind too?”
Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, and said to Him, “Are we blind also?”