9. 8:59-9:41 but Jesus was hidden and went forth out of the temple 20. 12:36-43 Jesus spoke these things and (then) going away was hidden from them. Passing along he (Jesus) saw a man who had been blind from birth. The disciples of Jesus asked him “Rabbi who was it that sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Jesus answered "Neither this man, nor his parents sinned. (He was born blind) so that the works of God may be shown in him. It is fitting for us to do the work of the one who sent me while it is still day. The night is coming when no one can work. When I am in the world, I am the light of the world." Having said these things he spat on the ground and made clay out of the spittle. Then he put the clay on the eyes (of the blind man) and said to him." Go and wash in the pool of Siloam - which in translation means 'having been sent'. He (the blind man) therefore went and washed and returned able to see. Yet even though he had worked so many signs they did not believe in him. This was so the word of Isaiah the prophet might be fulfilled. He said "Lord who believed in our report? and to whom was the arm of the Lord revealed?" Therefore they were unable to believe because as the prophet Isaiah also said "He has blinded their eyes The neighbours and those who saw him knew that formerly he was a beggar. So they said "Was this not the man who was sitting and begging?" Some said "This is himself." Others said "No but he is like him." (The one cured said "It is me." They therefore said to him "How is it that your eyes were opened?" He answered "The man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and told me "Go to Siloam and wash". So going I washed and then I could see." They said to him "Where is he?" He says "I do not know." They led the previously blind man to the Pharisees. Now it happened that the day on which Jesus made clay and opened his eyes was a Sabbath. and has hardened their heart, Again therefore the Pharisees asked him how it was that he saw. He said to them "He (Jesus) put clay on my eyes and I washed and (now) I see." Some of the Pharisees therefore said "This man (Jesus) cannot be from God because he does not keep the Sabbath." But others said "How can a sinful man work such signs?" So there was a division amongst them. They therefore said to the blind man again "What do you say about him since he made you see?" He said "He is a prophet." But the Jews did not believe that the man had been blind and saw again until they called his parents and asked them saying "Is this your son whom you say was born blind? How is it then that he now sees?" His parents therefore answered and said "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. But how it is that he now sees we do not know. Nor do we know who opened his eyes. He is of age. Ask him and he will tell you for himself." (The blind man's) parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews. The Jews had already agreed that if anyone should acknowledge him (Jesus) to be the Christ they would be put out of the synagogue. that they might not be able to see with their eyes nor understand with their heart and so turn so that I might cure them." Isaiah said these things because he saw (God's) glory and spoke about him. Nevertheless even out of the rulers there were many who believed in him (Jesus). But because of the Pharisees they did not (openly) confess this in case they should be put out of the synagogue. The parents therefore said "He is of age. Ask him." They (the Jews) therefore called the man who had been blind, a second time and said to him. "Give glory to God. We know that this man (Jesus) is sinful." That one therefore answered. "Whether or not he is sinful I do not know. But one thing I do know is that I was blind and now I see." They therefore said to him "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" He answered them "I have told you already and you did not hear. Why do you want to hear again? Do you also want to become his disciples?" (With this) they reviled him and said "You are a disciple of that man. But we are disciples of Moses. We know that God has spoken to Moses. But as for this man we do not know where he is from." The man answered and said to them "Is this not a marvelous thing then, that you do not know where he is from and he opened my eyes? We know that God does not hear sinful men. But if someone is god fearing and does (God's) will then he (God) hears such a man. From the beginning of time it was never heard that someone opened the eyes of a man who had been born blind. For, they loved the glory of men more than the glory of God. If this man was not from God he could not have been able to do anything." They (the Jews) answered and said to him "You were born wholly in sins and are you teaching us?" And so they cast him outside (the temple). Jesus heard that they had cast him outside and finding him said "Do you believe in the Son of man?" The man answered and siad "Who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?" Jesus said to him "You have seen him and he is the one who is (now) speaking with you." He said "I believe sir" and he worshipped him. Jesus said "I came into the world for judgment in that those who do not see may see and the ones who see may become blind. Now some of the Pharisees who were with him (Jesus) heard some of these things. They said to him "Are we blind as well?" Jesus said to them. "If you were blind you would not have had sin. But now that you say "We see" then your sin remains."