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    "language": "en",
    "book": "john",
    "chapter": 9
  },
  "data": {
    "n": 9,
    "bookSlug": "john",
    "bookCode": "JHN",
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    "title": "",
    "translation": null,
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "JHN-9:1",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.1",
        "text": "And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "JHN-9:2",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.2",
        "text": "And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?"
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "JHN-9:3",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.3",
        "text": "Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "JHN-9:4",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.4",
        "text": "We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "JHN-9:5",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.5",
        "text": "When I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "JHN-9:6",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.6",
        "text": "When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,"
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "JHN-9:7",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.7",
        "text": "and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "JHN-9:8",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.8",
        "text": "The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him aforetime, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?"
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "JHN-9:9",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.9",
        "text": "Others said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am [he]."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "JHN-9:10",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.10",
        "text": "They said therefore unto him, How then were thine eyes opened?"
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "JHN-9:11",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.11",
        "text": "He answered, The man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to Siloam, and wash: so I went away and washed, and I received sight."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "JHN-9:12",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.12",
        "text": "And they said unto him, Where is he? He saith, I know not."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "JHN-9:13",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.13",
        "text": "They bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "JHN-9:14",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.14",
        "text": "Now it was the sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "JHN-9:15",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.15",
        "text": "Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. And he said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and I see."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "JHN-9:16",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.16",
        "text": "Some therefore of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because he keepeth not the sabbath. But others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? And there was division among them."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "JHN-9:17",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.17",
        "text": "They say therefore unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, in that he opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "JHN-9:18",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.18",
        "text": "The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight,"
      },{
        "n": 19,
        "refId": "JHN-9:19",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.19",
        "text": "and asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How then doth he now see?"
      },{
        "n": 20,
        "refId": "JHN-9:20",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.20",
        "text": "His parents answered and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:"
      },{
        "n": 21,
        "refId": "JHN-9:21",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.21",
        "text": "but how he now seeth, we know not; or who opened his eyes, we know not: ask him; he is of age; he shall speak for himself."
      },{
        "n": 22,
        "refId": "JHN-9:22",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.22",
        "text": "These things said his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man should confess him [to be] Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue."
      },{
        "n": 23,
        "refId": "JHN-9:23",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.23",
        "text": "Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him."
      },{
        "n": 24,
        "refId": "JHN-9:24",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.24",
        "text": "So they called a second time the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner."
      },{
        "n": 25,
        "refId": "JHN-9:25",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.25",
        "text": "He therefore answered, Whether he is a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see."
      },{
        "n": 26,
        "refId": "JHN-9:26",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.26",
        "text": "They said therefore unto him, What did he to thee? How opened he thine eyes?"
      },{
        "n": 27,
        "refId": "JHN-9:27",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.27",
        "text": "He answered them, I told you even now, and ye did not hear; wherefore would ye hear it again? would ye also become his disciples?"
      },{
        "n": 28,
        "refId": "JHN-9:28",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.28",
        "text": "And they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are disciples of Moses."
      },{
        "n": 29,
        "refId": "JHN-9:29",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.29",
        "text": "We know that God hath spoken unto Moses: but as for this man, we know not whence he is."
      },{
        "n": 30,
        "refId": "JHN-9:30",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.30",
        "text": "The man answered and said unto them, Why, herein is the marvel, that ye know not whence he is, and [yet] he opened mine eyes."
      },{
        "n": 31,
        "refId": "JHN-9:31",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.31",
        "text": "We know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and do his will, him he heareth."
      },{
        "n": 32,
        "refId": "JHN-9:32",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.32",
        "text": "Since the world began it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind."
      },{
        "n": 33,
        "refId": "JHN-9:33",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.33",
        "text": "If this man were not from God, he could do nothing."
      },{
        "n": 34,
        "refId": "JHN-9:34",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.34",
        "text": "They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out."
      },{
        "n": 35,
        "refId": "JHN-9:35",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.35",
        "text": "Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, he said, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?"
      },{
        "n": 36,
        "refId": "JHN-9:36",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.36",
        "text": "He answered and said, And who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him?"
      },{
        "n": 37,
        "refId": "JHN-9:37",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.37",
        "text": "Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that speaketh with thee."
      },{
        "n": 38,
        "refId": "JHN-9:38",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.38",
        "text": "And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him."
      },{
        "n": 39,
        "refId": "JHN-9:39",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.39",
        "text": "And Jesus said, For judgment came I into this world, that they that see not may see; and that they that see may become blind."
      },{
        "n": 40,
        "refId": "JHN-9:40",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.40",
        "text": "Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind?"
      },{
        "n": 41,
        "refId": "JHN-9:41",
        "verseRef": "JHN.9.41",
        "text": "Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth."
      }
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