This time, we can look up the verses in the Bible ourselves and I will simply tell the story in a way that I understood it.

While Jesus was walking through, he came up on a man who was blind from birth. The disciples asked Jesus if the reason this man was blind was because of his own sin, or if it was his parents that sinned. Jesus said neither, he was blind to show the works of God in him.

Jesus mentions that this time they were in was the time that he was to walk through teaching and healing because a time was coming when he would no longer be there to do this. Jesus was/is the light of the world as long as he is in the world.

He spit on the clay and made an ointment, then put it on the eyes of the blind man and told him to go and wash his eyes in the pool of Siloam.

The blind man went and washed his eyes in the pool of Siloam. After his neighbors saw him and were amazed that he could see… some were so astonished they thought he was a different guy that just looked like him.

They went to him and asked him how it was that he started seeing. He told them that it was Jesus who made an ointment and put it on his eyes, then instructed him to go wash his eyes in the pool of Siloam.

They asked him where Jesus was and the man said he didn’t know.

This was done on the Sabbath day.

The Pharisees asked the man how he received his sight, and the man told them what Jesus had done for him. Then the Pharisees started in about the law that we can’t work on the Sabbath day and completely discredited Jesus with this amazing healing because it went against their interpretation of the law regarding working on the Sabbath. They wanted to control the opinions of others about Jesus and stated that Jesus wasn’t of God because he did this on the Sabbath. Some people resisted and pointed out that Jesus had to be of God, or he wouldn’t have been able to do this miracle. The people split on their beliefs over this.

The Pharisees sent for the blind man again. It seems there was a buzz in the town over this miracle and many people were talking about it… at least that’s the impression I get. So the blind man was asked of the Pharisees what he thought of Jesus, the one who healed him, and the formerly blind man said he thought he was a prophet.

The Pharisees could not believe there was a miracle that happened… so they called the man’s parents in for questioning. They asked the parents if the man was their son that was born blind, and the parents affirmed that he was their son and was born blind. They went on to say they didn’t know how he received his sight and that he was old enough to answer for himself and to ask him.

Having been unable to disprove the miracle, they settled for the statement they said to the man to give God the glory because they claimed that Jesus was a sinner. This was a refusal to give Jesus credit for the work that he was doing that God had sent him to do. I’m sure if their hearts were not darkened, they would have seen the truth and glorified God for Jesus being here doing the works of God. Even after telling the man and others this, they still asked the man again to tell them what happened and how his eyes were healed. The man says that he has told them already and asked them if he tells them again will they become a disciple of Jesus. The Pharisees were annoyed by this question and told the man off and then added that the man was Jesus’s disciple, but they were Moses’s disciple. They said that God spoke to Moses, but they didn’t know about Jesus.

The man said that what happened was a marvelous thing, and he couldn’t understand how they didn’t understand that it was a miracle from God because God only works through those who are doing what God wants them to do, and Jesus could not have healed him had he not been of God. He reminds them that no one has ever been healed of blindness before, and that Jesus couldn’t have done it unless he was from God.

The Pharisees were annoyed. They told the man who had just had a very real encounter with the son of God that he was a sinner who didn’t have enough knowledge on the things of God to teach them. Then they threw him out.

Jesus came up to him and asked him if he believed on the Son of God. Remember, the man thought that Jesus was a prophet before who was here doing the work of God… so he asked Jesus who the Son of God was, so he could believe in him. Jesus told him that he is the son of God, and the man said he did believe and worshiped him.

Then Jesus said this… that he came into this world for judgment and that those who don’t see would be able to, and those that could see would be made blind.

Some of the Pharisees heard this and asked Jesus if they were blind. Jesus answered that if they had been blind, they would have no sin. Since they proclaimed they could see, then they are accountable for their sins.