John 9
Reading John chapter 9 in the Douay-Rheims Catholic Bible, public-domain text from 1899.
Verses 1–10
1 And Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth.
2 And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?
3 Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
4 I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6 When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes,
7 And said to him: Go, wash in the pool of Siloe, which is interpreted, Sent. He went therefore and washed: and he came seeing.
8 The neighbours, therefore, and they who had seen him before that he was a beggar, said: Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said: This is he.
9 But others said: No, but he is like him. But he said: I am he.
10 They said therefore to him: How were thy eyes opened?
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