"One thing I know: I was blind, but now I see."
Two great discourses of the Gospel of John — the Light of the World and the Good Shepherd — are woven together in a single narrative sequence spanning John 9-10.
The Man Born Blind — John 9
As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. And his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?" Jesus answered, "It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that the works of God might be displayed in him. We must work the works of him who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."
Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud and said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which means Sent). So he went and washed and came back seeing.
- John 9:1-7
The Pharisees interrogate the healed man repeatedly. His parents are brought in. He is cast out of the synagogue. Through it all he holds to what he knows:
"Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see."
- John 9:25
Yeshua finds him after his expulsion:
Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" He answered, "And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?" Jesus said to him, "You have seen him, and it is he who is speaking to you." He said, "Lord, I believe," and he worshiped him.
- John 9:35-38
"For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind."
- John 9:39
"I Am the Good Shepherd" — John 10
The discourse continues directly from the healing of the blind man.
"Truly, truly, I say to you, he who does not enter the sheepfold by the door but climbs in by another way, that man is a thief and a robber. But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep. To him the gatekeeper opens. The sheep hear his voice, and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out."
- John 10:1-3
"I am the good shepherd. The good shepherd lays down his life for the sheep."
- John 10:11
"I am the good shepherd. I know my own and my own know me, just as the Father knows me and I know the Father; and I lay down my life for the sheep. And I have other sheep that are not of this fold. I must bring them also, and they will listen to my voice. So there will be one flock, one shepherd."
- John 10:14-16
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. My Father, who has given them to me, is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. I and the Father are one."
- John 10:27-30