3. “No, it wasn't!” Jesus answered. “But because of his blindness, you will see God perform a miracle for him.
4. As long as it is day, we must do what the one who sent me wants me to do. When night comes, no one can work.
5. While I am in the world, I am the light for the world.”
6. After Jesus said this, he spat on the ground. He made some mud and smeared it on the man's eyes.
7. Then he said, “Go and wash off the mud in Siloam Pool.” The man went and washed in Siloam, which means “One who is sent”. When he had washed off the mud, he could see.
8. The man's neighbours and the people who had seen him begging wondered if he really could be the same man.
9. Some of them said he was the same beggar, while others said he only looked like him. But he told them, “I am that man.”
10. “Then how can you see?” they asked.
11. He answered, “Someone named Jesus made some mud and smeared it on my eyes. He told me to go and wash it off in Siloam Pool. When I did, I could see.”
12. “Where is he now?” they asked.“I don't know,” he answered.
13-14. The day when Jesus made the mud and healed the man was a Sabbath. So the people took the man to the Pharisees.
15. They asked him how he was able to see, and he answered, “Jesus made some mud and smeared it on my eyes. Then after I washed it off, I could see.”
16. Some of the Pharisees said, “This man Jesus doesn't come from God. If he did, he would not break the law of the Sabbath.”Others asked, “How could someone who is a sinner perform such a miracle?”Since the Pharisees could not agree among themselves,