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Gospel Reading - A Man Born Blind Receives Sight

Jesus performed this miracle immediately after Sukkot, he used the healing and the holiday to make some almost unbelievable claims about himself. Remember the pool of Siloam was the same place from which the water is drawn for the Water Ceremony during Sukkot. Thousands of years later, people are still grappling with the meaning behind this miracle.

As he was walking along, he saw a man blind from birth.

² “Master,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it a result of his own sins or those of his parents?

³“Neither,” Jesus answered. “But to demonstrate the power of God. ⁴All of us must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent me, for there is little time left before the night falls and all work comes to an end. ⁵But while I am still here in the world, I give it my light.”

⁶Then he spat on the ground and made mud from the spittle and smoothed the mud over the blind man’s eyes, 7 and told him, “Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam” (the word Siloam means “Sent”). So the man went where he was sent and washed and came back seeing!