\DeclareFixedFootnote{\fnMaturity}{that is, he's an adult} %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%% \subsection{\Ioannes 9} \subsubsection{Healing a Man Born Blind} \VS{1} And passing by he saw [a] person\fnAnthropos{} blind from birth. \VS{2} And his disciples asked him saying: Rabbi, who sinned, this [person] or his parents, that he be born blind? \VS{3} \Iesous answered: Neither this [man] sinned nor his parents, but [rather] that the works of God be manifested in him. \VS{4} We must be working the works of him having sent me while it is day; when night comes you are not able to be working. \VS{5} While I be in the world\fnKosmos{}, I am [the] light of the world. \VS{6} Having said these [things] he spat on the ground and made clay from the spit, and spread the clay on [his] eyes, \VS{7} and said to him: Be going, wash in the pool of \Siloam, which is being translated: [The one] having been sent. He went out therefore and washed, and he came seeing. \VS{8} So the neighbors and those seeing him formerly, that he was [a] beggar, were saying: Is this not the [one] sitting and begging? \VS{9} Others were saying that, This is he, others were saying: No, but he is like him. That [one] was saying that: I am he. \VS{10} They were therefore saying to him: How were your eyes opened? \VS{11} He answered: The man being called \Iesous made clay and spread [it on] my eyes and said to me: Be going to \Siloam and wash. Having gone therefore and having been washed I saw again. \VS{12} And they said to him: Where is he? He says: I do not know. \subsubsection{The Pharisee's Reaction to the Healing} \VS{13} They bring him to the Pharisees, the [one] once blind. \VS{14} Now it was [the] Sabbath on the day \Iesous made the clay and opened his eyes. \VS{15} Again therefore the Pharisees were asking him how he saw again. So he said to them: He placed clay on my eyes, and I washed myself, and I see. \VS{16} Some therefore of the Pharisees were saying: He is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath. But others were saying: How is [a] sinful person\fnAnthropos{} able to be doing such signs? And there was [a] division among them. \VS{17} So they say again to the blind [one]: What do you say concerning him, since he opened your eyes? But he said that: He is [a] prophet. \VS{18} So the Jews did not trust concerning him that he was blind and has regained sight until they called the parents of him having seen again, \VS{19} and asked them saying: Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see? \VS{20} His parents therefore answered and said: We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. \VS{21} But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him, he has maturity\fnMaturity{}, he will speak for himself. \VS{22} His parents said these [things] because they were fearing the Jews. For the Jews were already agreed that if anyone professed him [to be] the Anointed\fnChristos{} [One], he become expelled from the synagogue. \VS{23} Because of this did his parents say that: He has maturity\fnMaturity{}, ask him. \VS{24} So they called the man who was blind [a] second time, and said to him: Give [the] glory to God, for we know that this [one] is [a] sinful person.% \fnAnthropos{} \VS{25} He therefore answered: If he is [a] sinner I do not know. One [thing] I know, that being blind I now see. \VS{26} They said therefore to him: What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? \VS{27} He answered them: I told you already and you did not hear: Why do you want to be hearing again? Do you too want to become his disciples? \VS{28} And they reviled him and said: You are his disciple, but we are disciples of \Moses. \VS{29} We know that God has spoken in \Moses, but we do not know whence he is. \VS{30} The man answered and said to them: But in him is [an] amazing [thing], that you do not know whence he is, and he opened my eyes. \VS{31} We know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone be godly and do his will, he hears him. \VS{32} From the age[s]% \footnote{In this context, an idiomatic way of saying, ``Never has it been heard that\ldots{}''} it has not been heard that anyone opened [the] eyes of [one] born blind. \VS{33} If he was not from God, he would \negd{not} be able to be doing anything. \VS{34} They answered and said to him: You were born entirely in sins, and you teach us? And they threw him out. \subsubsection{The Man's Response to \Iesous} \VS{35} \Iesous heard that they threw him out, and having found him he said: Do you trust in the Son of Humanity\fnAnthropos{}? \VS{36} He answered and said: And who is he, Lord, that I trust in him? \VS{37} \Iesous said to him: You have seen him and the [one] speaking with you is he. \VS{38} So he said: I trust, Lord, and he worshipped him. \VS{39} And \Iesous said: For judgment did I come into the world, in order that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind. \VS{40} Those of the Pharisees being with him heard these [things], and said to him, Are we also blind?\fnGrammarIndicatesNo{} \VS{41} \Iesous said to them: If you were blind, you were not having sin. But now you say: We see. Your sin abides.