Bringing Light to the Blind

9 As Yeshua was passing by, He saw a man who had been blind since birth. ² His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?”

³ Yeshua answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned. This happened so that the works of God might be brought to light in him. ⁴ We must do the work of the One who sent Me, so long as it is day! Night is coming when no one can work. ⁵ While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

⁶ Having said these things, He spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud on the blind man’s eyes. ⁷ He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which is translated Sent). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

Some Despise the Light and Harden

²² Then came Hanukkah;^[a] it was winter in Jerusalem. ²³ Yeshua was walking in the Temple around Solomon’s Colonnade. ²⁴ Then the Judean leaders surrounded Him, saying, “How long will You hold us in suspense? If You are the Messiah, tell us outright!”

²⁵ Yeshua answered them, “I told you, but you don’t believe! The works I do in My Father’s name testify concerning Me. ²⁶ But you don’t believe, because you are not My sheep. ²⁷ My sheep hear My voice. I know them, and they follow Me. ²⁸ I give them eternal life! They will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of My hand. ²⁹ My Father, who has given them to Me, is greater than all. And no one is able to snatch them out of the Father’s hand. ³⁰ I and the Father are one.”

³¹ Again the Judean leaders picked up stones to stone Him. ³² Yeshua answered them, “I’ve shown you many good works from the Father. For which of these are you going to stone Me?”

³³ The Judean leaders answered, “We aren’t stoning you for a good work, but for blasphemy. Though You are a man, You make Yourself God!”

³⁴ Yeshua answered them, “Isn’t it written in your Writings,^[b] ‘I have said you are gods’? ³⁵ If he called them ‘gods,’ to whom the Word of God came (and the Scripture cannot be broken), ³⁶ do you say of Him, the One the Father set apart and sent into the world, ‘You speak blasphemy,’ because I said, ‘I am Ben-Elohim’?

³⁷ “If I don’t do the works of My Father, don’t believe Me! ³⁸ But if I do, even if you don’t trust Me, trust the deeds. Then you may come to know and continue to understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.” ³⁹ Therefore they tried to capture Him again, but He escaped from their hand.