Fourth Sunday in Lent
John 9:1-41

As he walked along, he saw a man blind from birth.  His disciples asked
him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born
blind so that God's works might be revealed in him.  We must work the
works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming when no one can
work.  As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."  When
he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and
spread the mud on the man's eyes, saying to him, "Go, wash in the pool of
Siloam" (which means Sent).  Then he went and washed and came back able to
see.  The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar began to
ask, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"  Some were saying, "It
is he."  Others were saying, "No, but it is someone like him. " He  kept
saying, "I am the man."  But they kept asking him, "Then how were your
eyes opened?"  He answered, "The man called Jesus made mud, spread it on
my eyes, and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash.'  Then I went and washed
and received my sight."  They said to him, "Where is he?" He said, "I do
not know."

They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.  Now it
was a sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes.  Then the
Pharisees also began to ask him how he had received his sight.  He said to
them, "He put mud on my eyes.  Then I washed, and now I see."  Some of the
Pharisees said, "This man is not from God, for he does not observe the
sabbath."  But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such
signs?"  And they were divided.  So they said again to the blind man,
"What do you say about him?  It was your eyes he opened."  He said, "He is
a prophet."

The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight
until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight and
asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind?  How then does
he now see?"  His parents answered, "We know that this is our son, and
that he was born blind; but we do not know how it is that now he sees, nor
do we know who opened his eyes.  Ask him; he is of age.  He will speak for
himself."  His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for
the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the
Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.  Therefore his parents said,
"He is of age; ask him."

So for the second time they called the man who had been blind, and they
said to him, "Give glory to God!  We know that this man is a sinner."  He
answered, "I do not know whether he is a sinner.  One thing I do know,
that though I was blind, now I see."  They said to him, "What did he do to
you?  How did he open your eyes?"  He answered them, "I have told you
already, and you would not listen.  Why do you want to hear it again?  Do
you also want to become his disciples?"  Then they reviled him, saying,
"You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.  We know that God
has spoken to Moses, but as for this man, we do not know where he comes
from."  The man answered, "Here is an astonishing thing!  You do not know
where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.  We know that God does not
listen to sinners, but he does listen to one who worships him and obeys
his will.  Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone
opened the eyes of a person born blind.  If this man were not from God, he
could do nothing."  They answered him, "You were born entirely in sins,
and are you trying to teach us?" And they drove him out.

Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said,
"Do you believe in the Son of Man?"  He answered, "And who is he, sir?
Tell me, so that I may believe in him."  Jesus said to him, "You have seen
him, and the one speaking with you is he."  He said, "Lord, I believe."
And he worshiped him.  Jesus said, "I came into this world for judgment so
that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind."
Some of the Pharisees near him heard this and said to him, "Surely we are
not blind, are we?"  Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not
have sin.  But now that you say, 'We see,' your sin remains.