ཡོཧནཿ 9
1 ཏཏཿ པརཾ ཡཱིཤུརྒཙྪན྄ མཱརྒམདྷྱེ ཛནྨཱནྡྷཾ ནརམ྄ ཨཔཤྱཏ྄།
As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.
2 ཏཏཿ ཤིཥྱཱསྟམ྄ ཨཔྲྀཙྪན྄ ཧེ གུརོ ནརོཡཾ སྭཔཱཔེན ཝཱ སྭཔིཏྲཱཿ པཱཔེནཱནྡྷོ྅ཛཱཡཏ?
“Rabbi,” asked his disciples, “who was it that sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
3 ཏཏཿ ས པྲཏྱུདིཏཝཱན྄ ཨེཏསྱ ཝཱསྱ པིཏྲོཿ པཱཔཱད྄ ཨེཏཱདྲྀཤོབྷཱུད ཨིཏི ནཧི ཀིནྟྭནེན ཡཐེཤྭརསྱ ཀརྨྨ པྲཀཱཤྱཏེ ཏདྡྷེཏོརེཝ།
“Neither the man nor the parents,” replied Jesus, “but he was born blind so that the work of God should be made plain in him.
4 དིནེ ཏིཥྛཏི མཏྤྲེརཡིཏུཿ ཀརྨྨ མཡཱ ཀརྟྟཝྱཾ ཡདཱ ཀིམཔི ཀརྨྨ ན ཀྲིཡཏེ ཏཱདྲྀཤཱི ནིཤཱགཙྪཏི།
We must do the work of him who sent me, while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.
5 ཨཧཾ ཡཱཝཏྐཱལཾ ཛགཏི ཏིཥྛཱམི ཏཱཝཏྐཱལཾ ཛགཏོ ཛྱོཏིཿསྭརཱུཔོསྨི།
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
6 ཨིཏྱུཀྟྟཱ བྷཱུམཽ ནིཥྛཱིཝཾ ནིཀྵིཔྱ ཏེན པངྐཾ ཀྲྀཏཝཱན྄
Saying this, Jesus spat on the ground, made some paste with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.
7 པཤྩཱཏ྄ ཏཏྤངྐེན ཏསྱཱནྡྷསྱ ནེཏྲེ པྲལིཔྱ ཏམིཏྱཱདིཤཏ྄ གཏྭཱ ཤིལོཧེ ྅རྠཱཏ྄ པྲེརིཏནཱམྣི སརསི སྣཱཧི། ཏཏོནྡྷོ གཏྭཱ ཏཏྲཱསྣཱཏ྄ ཏཏཿ པྲནྣཙཀྵུ རྦྷཱུཏྭཱ ཝྱཱགྷུཊྱཱགཱཏ྄།
“Go,” he said, “and wash your eyes in the Bath of Siloam” (a word which means ‘messenger’). So the man went and washed his eyes, and returned able to see.
8 ཨཔརཉྩ སམཱིཔཝཱསིནོ ལོཀཱ ཡེ ཙ ཏཾ པཱུཪྻྭམནྡྷམ྄ ཨཔཤྱན྄ ཏེ བཀྟྟུམ྄ ཨཱརབྷནྟ ཡོནྡྷལོཀོ ཝརྟྨནྱུཔཝིཤྱཱབྷིཀྵཏ ས ཨེཝཱཡཾ ཛནཿ ཀིཾ ན བྷཝཏི?
His neighbors, and those who had formerly known him by sight as a beggar, exclaimed, “Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?”
9 ཀེཙིདཝདན྄ ས ཨེཝ ཀེཙིདཝོཙན྄ ཏཱདྲྀཤོ བྷཝཏི ཀིནྟུ ས སྭཡམབྲཝཱིཏ྄ ས ཨེཝཱཧཾ བྷཝཱམི།
“Yes,” some said, “it is”; while others said, “No, but he is like him.” The man himself said, “I am he.”
10 ཨཏཨེཝ ཏེ ྅པྲྀཙྪན྄ ཏྭཾ ཀཐཾ དྲྀཥྚིཾ པཱཔྟཝཱན྄?
“How did you get your sight, then?” they asked.
11 ཏཏཿ སོཝདད྄ ཡཱིཤནཱམཀ ཨེཀོ ཛནོ མམ ནཡནེ པངྐེན པྲལིཔྱ ཨིཏྱཱཛྙཱཔཡཏ྄ ཤིལོཧཀཱསཱརཾ གཏྭཱ ཏཏྲ སྣཱཧི། ཏཏསྟཏྲ གཏྭཱ མཡི སྣཱཏེ དྲྀཥྚིམཧཾ ལབྡྷཝཱན྄།
“The man whom they call Jesus,” he answered, “made a paste, and anointed my eyes, and said to me ‘Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.’ So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight.”
12 ཏདཱ ཏེ ྅ཝདན྄ ས པུམཱན྄ ཀུཏྲ? ཏེནོཀྟྟཾ ནཱཧཾ ཛཱནཱམི།
“Where is he?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.
13 ཨཔརཾ ཏསྨིན྄ པཱུཪྻྭཱནྡྷེ ཛནེ ཕིརཱུཤིནཱཾ ནིཀཊམ྄ ཨཱནཱིཏེ སཏི ཕིརཱུཤིནོཔི ཏམཔྲྀཙྪན྄ ཀཐཾ དྲྀཥྚིཾ པྲཱཔྟོསི?
They took the man, who had been blind, to the Pharisees.
14 ཏཏཿ ས ཀཐིཏཝཱན྄ ས པངྐེན མམ ནེཏྲེ ྅ལིམྤཏ྄ པཤྩཱད྄ སྣཱཏྭཱ དྲྀཥྚིམལབྷེ།
Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the paste and gave him his sight.
15 ཀིནྟུ ཡཱིཤུ ཪྻིཤྲཱམཝཱརེ ཀརྡྡམཾ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ ཏསྱ ནཡནེ པྲསནྣེ྅ཀརོད྄ ཨིཏིཀཱརཎཱཏ྄ ཀཏིཔཡཕིརཱུཤིནོ྅ཝདན྄
So the Pharisees also questioned the man as to how he had gained his sight. “He put a paste on my eyes,” he answered, “and I washed them, and I can see.”
16 ས པུམཱན྄ ཨཱིཤྭརཱནྣ ཡཏཿ ས ཝིཤྲཱམཝཱརཾ ན མནྱཏེ། ཏཏོནྱེ ཀེཙིཏ྄ པྲཏྱཝདན྄ པཱཔཱི པུམཱན྄ ཀིམ྄ ཨེཏཱདྲྀཤམ྄ ཨཱཤྩཪྻྱཾ ཀརྨྨ ཀརྟྟུཾ ཤཀྣོཏི?
“The man cannot be from God,” said some of the Pharisees, “for he does not keep the Sabbath.” “How is it possible,” retorted others, “for a bad man to give signs like this?”
17 ཨིཏྠཾ ཏེཥཱཾ པརསྤརཾ བྷིནྣཝཱཀྱཏྭམ྄ ཨབྷཝཏ྄། པཤྩཱཏ྄ ཏེ པུནརཔི ཏཾ པཱུཪྻྭཱནྡྷཾ མཱནུཥམ྄ ཨཔྲཱཀྵུཿ ཡོ ཛནསྟཝ ཙཀྵུཥཱི པྲསནྣེ ཀྲྀཏཝཱན྄ ཏསྨིན྄ ཏྭཾ ཀིཾ ཝདསི? ས ཨུཀྟྟཝཱན྄ ས བྷཝིཤདྭཱདཱི།
So there was a difference of opinion among them, and they again questioned the man. “What do you yourself say about him, for it is to you that he has given sight?”
18 ས དྲྀཥྚིམ྄ ཨཱཔྟཝཱན྄ ཨིཏི ཡིཧཱུདཱིཡཱསྟསྱ དྲྀཥྚིཾ པྲཱཔྟསྱ ཛནསྱ པིཏྲོ རྨུཁཱད྄ ཨཤྲུཏྭཱ ན པྲཏྱཡན྄།
The religious authorities, however, refused to believe that he had been blind and had gained his sight, until they had called his parents and questioned them.
19 ཨཏཨེཝ ཏེ ཏཱཝཔྲྀཙྪན྄ ཡུཝཡོ ཪྻཾ པུཏྲཾ ཛནྨཱནྡྷཾ ཝདཐཿ ས ཀིམཡཾ? ཏརྷཱིདཱནཱིཾ ཀཐཾ དྲཥྚུཾ ཤཀྣོཏི?
“Is this your son,” they asked, “who you say was born blind? If so, how is it that he can see now?”
20 ཏཏསྟསྱ པིཏརཽ པྲཏྱཝོཙཏཱམ྄ ཨཡམ྄ ཨཱཝཡོཿ པུཏྲ ཨཱ ཛནེརནྡྷཤྩ ཏདཔྱཱཝཱཾ ཛཱནཱིཝཿ
“We know that this is our son,” answered the parents, “and that he was born blind;
21 ཀིནྟྭདྷུནཱ ཀཐཾ དྲྀཥྚིཾ པྲཱཔྟཝཱན྄ ཏདཱཝཱཾ ན྄ ཛཱནཱིཝཿ ཀོསྱ ཙཀྵུཥཱི པྲསནྣེ ཀྲྀཏཝཱན྄ ཏདཔི ན ཛཱནཱིཝ ཨེཥ ཝཡཿཔྲཱཔྟ ཨེནཾ པྲྀཙྪཏ སྭཀཐཱཾ སྭཡཾ ཝཀྵྱཏི།
but how it is that he can see now we do not know; nor do we know who it was that gave him his sight. Ask him – he is old enough – he will tell you about himself.”
22 ཡིཧཱུདཱིཡཱནཱཾ བྷཡཱཏ྄ ཏསྱ པིཏརཽ ཝཱཀྱམིདམ྄ ཨཝདཏཱཾ ཡཏཿ ཀོཔི མནུཥྱོ ཡདི ཡཱིཤུམ྄ ཨབྷིཥིཀྟཾ ཝདཏི ཏརྷི ས བྷཛནགྲྀཧཱད྄ དཱུརཱིཀཱརིཥྱཏེ ཡིཧཱུདཱིཡཱ ཨིཏི མནྟྲཎཱམ྄ ཨཀུཪྻྭན྄
His parents spoke in this way because they were afraid of the authorities; for the authorities had already agreed that, if anyone should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ, he should be expelled from their synagogues.
23 ཨཏསྟསྱ པིཏརཽ ཝྱཱཧརཏཱམ྄ ཨེཥ ཝཡཿཔྲཱཔྟ ཨེནཾ པྲྀཙྪཏ།
This was why his parents said ‘He is old enough; ask him.’
24 ཏདཱ ཏེ པུནཤྩ ཏཾ པཱུཪྻྭཱནྡྷམ྄ ཨཱཧཱུཡ ཝྱཱཧརན྄ ཨཱིཤྭརསྱ གུཎཱན྄ ཝད ཨེཥ མནུཥྱཿ པཱཔཱིཏི ཝཡཾ ཛཱནཱིམཿ།
So the authorities again called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “Give God the praise; we know that this is a bad man.”
25 ཏདཱ ས ཨུཀྟྟཝཱན྄ ས པཱཔཱི ན ཝེཏི ནཱཧཾ ཛཱནེ པཱུཪྻཱམནྡྷ ཨཱསམཧམ྄ ཨདྷུནཱ པཤྱཱམཱིཏི མཱཏྲཾ ཛཱནཱམི།
“I know nothing about his being a bad man,” he replied. “One thing I do know, that although I was blind, now I can see.”
26 ཏེ པུནརཔྲྀཙྪན྄ ས ཏྭཱཾ པྲཏི ཀིམཀརོཏ྄? ཀཐཾ ནེཏྲེ པྲསནྣེ ྅ཀརོཏ྄?
“What did he do to you?” they asked. “How did he give you your sight?”
27 ཏཏཿ སོཝཱདཱིད྄ ཨེཀཀྲྀཏྭོཀཐཡཾ ཡཱུཡཾ ན ཤྲྀཎུཐ ཏརྷི ཀུཏཿ པུནཿ ཤྲོཏུམ྄ ཨིཙྪཐ? ཡཱུཡམཔི ཀིཾ ཏསྱ ཤིཥྱཱ བྷཝིཏུམ྄ ཨིཙྪཐ?
“I told you just now,” he answered, “and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Surely you also do not want to become his disciples?”
28 ཏདཱ ཏེ ཏཾ ཏིརསྐྲྀཏྱ ཝྱཱཧརན྄ ཏྭཾ ཏསྱ ཤིཥྱོ ཝཡཾ མཱུསཱཿ ཤིཥྱཱཿ།
“You are his disciple,” they retorted scornfully. “But we are disciples of Moses.
29 མཱུསཱཝཀྟྲེཎེཤྭརོ ཛགཱད ཏཛྫཱནཱིམཿ ཀིནྟྭེཥ ཀུཏྲཏྱལོཀ ཨིཏི ན ཛཱནཱིམཿ།
We know that God spoke to Moses; but, as for this man, we do not know where he comes from.”
30 སོཝདད྄ ཨེཥ མམ ལོཙནེ པྲསནྣེ ྅ཀརོཏ྄ ཏཐཱཔི ཀུཏྲཏྱལོཀ ཨིཏི ཡཱུཡཾ ན ཛཱནཱིཐ ཨེཏད྄ ཨཱཤྩཪྻྱཾ བྷཝཏི།
“Well,” the man replied, “this is very strange; you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has given me my sight!
31 ཨཱིཤྭརཿ པཱཔིནཱཾ ཀཐཱཾ ན ཤྲྀཎོཏི ཀིནྟུ ཡོ ཛནསྟསྨིན྄ བྷཀྟིཾ ཀྲྀཏྭཱ ཏདིཥྚཀྲིཡཱཾ ཀརོཏི ཏསྱཻཝ ཀཐཱཾ ཤྲྀཎོཏི ཨེཏད྄ ཝཡཾ ཛཱནཱིམཿ།
We know that God never listens to bad people, but, when a person is god-fearing and does God’s will, God listens to them.
Since the world began, such a thing was never heard of as anyone’s giving sight to a person born blind. (aiōn g165)
33 ཨསྨཱད྄ ཨེཥ མནུཥྱོ ཡདཱིཤྭརཱནྣཱཛཱཡཏ ཏརྷི ཀིཉྩིདཔཱིདྲྀཤཾ ཀརྨྨ ཀརྟྟུཾ ནཱཤཀྣོཏ྄།
If this man had not been from God, he could not have done anything at all.”
34 ཏེ ཝྱཱཧརན྄ ཏྭཾ པཱཔཱད྄ ཨཛཱཡཐཱཿ ཀིམསྨཱན྄ ཏྭཾ ཤིཀྵཡསི? པཤྩཱཏྟེ ཏཾ བཧིརཀུཪྻྭན྄།
“You,” they retorted, “were born totally depraved; and are you trying to teach us?” So they expelled him.
35 ཏདནནྟརཾ ཡིཧཱུདཱིཡཻཿ ས བཧིརཀྲིཡཏ ཡཱིཤུརིཏི ཝཱརྟྟཱཾ ཤྲུཏྭཱ ཏཾ སཱཀྵཱཏ྄ པྲཱཔྱ པྲྀཥྚཝཱན྄ ཨཱིཤྭརསྱ པུཏྲེ ཏྭཾ ཝིཤྭསིཥི?
Jesus heard of their having put him out; and, when he had found the man, he asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36 ཏདཱ ས པྲཏྱཝོཙཏ྄ ཧེ པྲབྷོ ས ཀོ ཡཏ྄ ཏསྨིནྣཧཾ ཝིཤྭསིམི?
“Tell me who he is, Sir,” he replied, “so that I may believe in him.”
37 ཏཏོ ཡཱིཤུཿ ཀཐིཏཝཱན྄ ཏྭཾ ཏཾ དྲྀཥྚཝཱན྄ ཏྭཡཱ སཱཀཾ ཡཿ ཀཐཾ ཀཐཡཏི སཨེཝ སཿ།
“Not only have you seen him,” said Jesus, “but it is he who is now speaking to you.”
38 ཏདཱ ཧེ པྲབྷོ ཝིཤྭསིམཱིཏྱུཀྟྭཱ ས ཏཾ པྲཎཱམཏ྄།
“Then, Sir, I do believe,” said the man, bowing to the ground before him;
39 པཤྩཱད྄ ཡཱིཤུཿ ཀཐིཏཝཱན྄ ནཡནཧཱིནཱ ནཡནཱནི པྲཱཔྣུཝནྟི ནཡནཝནྟཤྩཱནྡྷཱ བྷཝནྟཱིཏྱབྷིཔྲཱཡེཎ ཛགདཱཧམ྄ ཨཱགཙྪམ྄།
and Jesus added, “It was to put people to the test that I came into this world, in order that those that cannot see should see, and that those that can see should become blind.”
40 ཨེཏཏ྄ ཤྲུཏྭཱ ནིཀཊསྠཱཿ ཀཏིཔཡཱཿ ཕིརཱུཤིནོ ཝྱཱཧརན྄ ཝཡམཔི ཀིམནྡྷཱཿ?
Hearing this, some of the Pharisees who were with him said, “Then are we blind too?”
41 ཏདཱ ཡཱིཤུརཝཱདཱིད྄ ཡདྱནྡྷཱ ཨབྷཝཏ ཏརྷི པཱཔཱནི ནཱཏིཥྛན྄ ཀིནྟུ པཤྱཱམཱིཏི ཝཱཀྱཝདནཱད྄ ཡུཥྨཱཀཾ པཱཔཱནི ཏིཥྛནྟི།
“If you had been blind,” replied Jesus, “you would have had no sin to answer for; but, as it is, you say ‘We can see,’ and so your sin remains.
