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# John 9

John 9 is chapter 9 of 21 in the Gospel of John. Here are all 41 verses in the Catholic Public Domain Version, with the Latin of the Clementine Vulgate beside them.

> He gives sight to the man born blind.
>
> — Bp. Richard Challoner, chapter summary

## John 9 (Catholic Public Domain Version)

1. And Jesus, while passing by, saw a man blind from birth.
2. And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?”
3. Jesus responded: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God would be made manifest in him.
4. I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day: the night is coming, when no one is able to 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 he made clay from the spittle, and he smeared the clay over his eyes.
7. And he said to him: “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated as: one who has been sent). Therefore, he went away and washed, and he returned, seeing.
8. And so the bystanders and those who had seen him before, when he was a beggar, said, “Is this not the one who was sitting and begging?” Some said, “This is he.”
9. But others said, “Certainly not, but he is similar to him.” Yet truly, he himself said, “I am he.”
10. Therefore, they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11. He responded: “That man who is called Jesus made clay, and he anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash.’ And I went, and I washed, and I see.”
12. And they said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”
13. They brought the one who had been blind to the Pharisees.
14. Now it was the Sabbath, when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
15. Therefore, again the Pharisees questioned him as to how he had seen. And he said to them, “He placed clay over my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
16. And so certain Pharisees said: “This man, who does not keep the Sabbath, is not from God.” But others said, “How could a sinful man accomplish these signs?” And there was a schism among them.
17. Therefore, they spoke again to the blind man, “What do you say about him who opened your eyes?” Then he said, “He is a Prophet.”
18. Therefore, the Jews did not believe, about him, that he had been blind and had seen, until they called the parents of him who had seen.
19. And they questioned them, saying: “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how is it that he now sees?”
20. His parents responded to them and said: “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
21. But how it is that he now sees, we do not know. And who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough. Let him speak for himself.”
22. His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already conspired, so that if anyone were to confess him to be the Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.
23. It was for this reason that his parents said: “He is old enough. Ask him.”
24. Therefore, they again called the man who had been blind, and they said to him: “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
25. And so he said to them: “If he is a sinner, I do not know it. One thing I do know, that although I was blind, now I see.”
26. Then they said to him: “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27. He answered them: “I have already told you, and you heard it. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his disciples?”
28. Therefore, they cursed him and said: “You be his disciple. But we are disciples of Moses.
29. We know that God spoke to Moses. But this man, we do not know where he is from.”
30. The man responded and said to them: “Now in this is a wonder: that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.
31. And we know that God does not hear sinners. But if anyone is a worshipper of God and does his will, then he heeds him.
32. From ancient times, it has not been heard that anyone has opened the eyes of someone born blind.
33. Unless this man were of God, he would not be able to do any such thing.”
34. They responded and said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and you would teach us?” And they cast him out.
35. Jesus heard that they had cast him out. And when he had found him, he said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”
36. He responded and said, “Who is he, Lord, so that I may believe in him?”
37. And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen him, and he is the one who is speaking with you.”
38. And he said, “I believe, Lord.” And falling prostrate, he worshipped him.
39. And Jesus said, “I came into this world in judgment, so that those who do not see, may see; and so that those who see, may become blind.”
40. And certain Pharisees, who were with him, heard this, and they said to him, “Are we also blind?”
41. Jesus said to them: “If you were blind, you would not have sin. Yet now you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin persists.”

## John 9 in Latin (Clementine Vulgate, 1592)

1. Et præteriens Jesus vidit hominem cæcum a nativitate:
2. et interrogaverunt eum discipuli ejus: Rabbi, quis peccavit, hic, aut parentes ejus, ut cæcus nasceretur?
3. Respondit Jesus: Neque hic peccavit, neque parentes ejus: sed ut manifestentur opera Dei in illo.
4. Me oportet operari opera ejus qui misit me, donec dies est: venit nox, quando nemo potest operari:
5. quamdiu sum in mundo, lux sum mundi.
6. Hæc cum dixisset, exspuit in terram, et fecit lutum ex sputo, et linivit lutum super oculos ejus,
7. et dixit ei: Vade, lava in natatoria Siloë (quod interpretatur Missus). Abiit ergo, et lavit, et venit videns.
8. Itaque vicini, et qui viderant eum prius quia mendicus erat, dicebant: Nonne hic est qui sedebat, et mendicabat? Alii dicebant: Quia hic est.
9. Alii autem: Nequaquam, sed similis est ei. Ille vero dicebat: Quia ego sum.
10. Dicebant ergo ei: Quomodo aperti sunt tibi oculi?
11. Respondit: Ille homo qui dicitur Jesus, lutum fecit: et unxit oculos meos, et dixit mihi: Vade ad natatoria Siloë, et lava. Et abii, et lavi, et video.
12. Et dixerunt ei: Ubi est ille? Ait: Nescio.
13. Adducunt eum ad pharisæos, qui cæcus fuerat.
14. Erat autem sabbatum quando lutum fecit Jesus, et aperuit oculos ejus.
15. Iterum ergo interrogabant eum pharisæi quomodo vidisset. Ille autem dixit eis: Lutum mihi posuit super oculos, et lavi, et video.
16. Dicebant ergo ex pharisæis quidam: Non est hic homo a Deo, qui sabbatum non custodit. Alii autem dicebant: Quomodo potest homo peccator hæc signa facere? Et schisma erat inter eos.
17. Dicunt ergo cæco iterum: Tu quid dicis de illo qui aperuit oculos tuos? Ille autem dixit: Quia propheta est.
18. Non crediderunt ergo Judæi de illo, quia cæcus fuisset et vidisset, donec vocaverunt parentes ejus, qui viderat:
19. et interrogaverunt eos, dicentes: Hic est filius vester, quem vos dicitis quia cæcus natus est? quomodo ergo nunc videt?
20. Responderunt eis parentes ejus, et dixerunt: Scimus quia hic est filius noster, et quia cæcus natus est:
21. quomodo autem nunc videat, nescimus: aut quis ejus aperuit oculos, nos nescimus; ipsum interrogate: ætatem habet, ipse de se loquatur.
22. Hæc dixerunt parentes ejus, quoniam timebant Judæos: jam enim conspiraverunt Judæi, ut si quis eum confiteretur esse Christum, extra synagogam fieret.
23. Propterea parentes ejus dixerunt: Quia ætatem habet, ipsum interrogate.
24. Vocaverunt ergo rursum hominem qui fuerat cæcus, et dixerunt ei: Da gloriam Deo: nos scimus quia hic homo peccator est.
25. Dixit ergo eis ille: Si peccator est, nescio; unum scio, quia cæcus cum essem, modo video.
26. Dixerunt ergo illi: Quid fecit tibi? quomodo aperuit tibi oculos?
27. Respondit eis: Dixi vobis jam, et audistis: quod iterum vultis audire? numquid et vos vultis discipuli ejus fieri?
28. Maledixerunt ergo ei, et dixerunt: Tu discipulus illius sis: nos autem Moysi discipuli sumus.
29. Nos scimus quia Moysi locutus est Deus; hunc autem nescimus unde sit.
30. Respondit ille homo, et dixit eis: In hoc enim mirabile est quia vos nescitis unde sit, et aperuit meos oculos:
31. scimus autem quia peccatores Deus non audit: sed si quis Dei cultor est, et voluntatem ejus facit, hunc exaudit.
32. A sæculo non est auditum quia quis aperuit oculos cæci nati.
33. Nisi esset hic a Deo, non poterat facere quidquam.
34. Responderunt, et dixerunt ei: In peccatis natus es totus, et tu doces nos? Et ejecerunt eum foras.
35. Audivit Jesus quia ejecerunt eum foras: et cum invenisset eum, dixit ei: Tu credis in Filium Dei?
36. Respondit ille, et dixit: Quis est, Domine, ut credam in eum?
37. Et dixit ei Jesus: Et vidisti eum, et qui loquitur tecum, ipse est.
38. At ille ait: Credo, Domine. Et procidens adoravit eum.
39. Et dixit Jesus: In judicium ego in hunc mundum veni: ut qui non vident videant, et qui vident cæci fiant.
40. Et audierunt quidam ex pharisæis qui cum ipso erant, et dixerunt ei: Numquid et nos cæci sumus?
41. Dixit eis Jesus: Si cæci essetis, non haberetis peccatum. Nunc vero dicitis, Quia videmus: peccatum vestrum manet.

## Catechism of the Catholic Church

Paragraph numbers and the Catechism's own section headings (never quoted); text at vatican.va.
- cf. CCC ¶ 1151: How is the Liturgy Celebrated? ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 1504: Its Foundations in the Economy of Salvation ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 595: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2173: The Sabbath Day ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- cf. CCC ¶ 596: Jesus Died Crucified ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 575: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 2827: "Thy Will Be Done on Earth as It is in Heaven" ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))
- CCC ¶ 588: Jesus and Israel ([vatican.va index](https://www.vatican.va/archive/ENG0015/_INDEX.HTM))

## Bishop Challoner's notes

Bp. Richard Challoner, notes on the Douay-Rheims (1750); they comment on its older wording.
- Verse 39: Not that Christ came for that end, that any one should be made blind: but that the Jews, by the abuse of his coming, and by their not receiving him, brought upon themselves this judgment of blindness.
- Verse 41: “If you were blind” … If you were invincibly ignorant, and had neither read the scriptures, nor seen my miracles, you would not be guilty of the sin of infidelity: but now, as you boast of your knowledge of the scriptures, you are inexcusable.

Source: Catholic Public Domain Version (Ronald L. Conte Jr., 2009), public domain; Latin: Clementine Vulgate (1592).