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Jesus gently applying clay to the closed eyelids of a man in a brick-red tunic.
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John 9:1-6

The Works of God

Now I See · John 9

Story guide: Jesus answers the disciples' question and makes clay for the man's eyes. The image selects the clay application; the man's age, appearance and lane are reconstruction.

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1And as he was passing by, he saw a man blind from birth.

2And his disciples asked him, saying, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?”

3Jesus answered, “Neither this man sinned, nor his parents, but so that the works of God might be revealed in him.”

4We must do the works of the one who sent me while it is day; night is coming, when no one can work.

5While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

6After saying these things, he spit on the ground and made mud from the saliva, and he spread the mud on his eyes,

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