1. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth.
2. And his disciples asked him, saying, Teacher, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
3. Jesus answered,
4. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night comes, 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 thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
7. And said unto him,
8. The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?