### Douay Rheims Bible

John 8

## The Gospel According to Saint John

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| # Chapter 9
#### 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 on 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?
#### 11 | He answered: That man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me: Go to the pool of Siloe, and wash. And I went, I washed, and I see.
#### 12 | And they said to him: Where is he? He saith: I know not.
#### 13 | They bring him that had been blind to the Pharisees.
#### 14 | Now it was the sabbath, when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.
#### 15 | Again therefore the Pharisees asked him, how he had received his sight. But he said to them: He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and I see.
#### 16 | Some therefore of the Pharisees said: This man is not of God, who keepeth not the sabbath. But others said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
#### 17 | They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest thou of him that hath opened they eyes? And he said: He is a prophet.
#### 18 | The Jews then did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight,
#### 19 | And asked them, saying: Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then doth he now see?
#### 20 | His parents answered them, and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
#### 21 | But how he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: ask himself: he is of age, let him speak for himself.
#### 22 | These things his parents said, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had already agreed among themselves, that if any man should confess him to be Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.
#### 23 | Therefore did his parents say: He is of age, ask himself.
#### 24 | They therefore called the man again that had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.
#### 25 | He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see.
#### 26 | They said then to him: What did he to thee? How did he open thy eyes?
#### 27 | He answered them: I have told you already, and you have heard: why would you hear it again? will you also become his disciples?
#### 28 | They reviled him therefore, and said: Be thou his disciple; but we are the disciples of Moses.
#### 29 | We know that God spoke to Moses: but as to this man, we know not from whence he is.
#### 30 | The man answered, and said to them: Why, herein is a wonderful thing, that you know not from whence he is, and he hath opened my eyes.
#### 31 | Now we know that God doth not hear sinners: but if a man be a server of God, and doth his will, him he heareth.
#### 32 | From the beginning of the world it hath not been heard, that any man hath opened the eyes of one born blind.
#### 33 | Unless this man were of God, he could not do any thing.
#### 34 | They answered, and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins, and dost thou 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: Dost thou believe in the Son of God?
#### 36 | He answered, and said: Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?
#### 37 | And Jesus said to him: Thou hast both seen him; and it is he that talketh with thee.
#### 38 | And he said: I believe, Lord. And falling down, he adored him.
#### 39 | And Jesus said: For judgment I am come into this world; that they who see not, may see; and they who see, may become blind.
#### 40 | And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they said unto him: Are we also blind?
#### 41 | Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.

John 10

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