"It was through no fault of his, nor of his father or mother that this man was born blind," answered Jesus. "It was that God might show a wonderful work in him. While daylight lasts, we must be doing God's work; the night will soon come when we can work no longer. As long as I am in the world I am the light of the world, and give light to men." As he said this, he spat on the ground and mixed the spittle with dust, making it into mud, and smeared it on the man's eyes. He said to the blind man: "Now, go down to the pool of Siloam and wash." [Illustration: The Pool of Siloam at the present time] The pool of Siloam was a large tank or reservoir on the southeast of the city, where the valley of the brook Kedron and the valley of Hinnom meet. To go to that place the blind man with two great blotches of mud on his face must walk across the city of Jerusalem, passing all the crowds on their way to worship. He went down to the pool of Siloam, climbed down its steps to the water and washed the mud from his face. In a moment his white, sightless eyes flashed with a new light. He looked up, and for the first time in all his life he could see! As he went to his father's house, everybody who saw him noticed how differently he looked. All had known him as a blind man, groping his way to the place where he used to sit as a beggar. The people asked each other: "Is this the same blind man that begged in the street?" Some said, "Yes, this is the same man." But others said, "No, this cannot be the man; but he is one who looks somewhat like him." He said, "I am the same man." "Then how did you get your sight?" they asked. "The man whom they call Jesus," he answered, "made some mud and put it on my eyes, and said, 'Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.' So I went and washed them; and my sight came to me." "Where is this man who cured you?" they asked. "I do not know," he answered. They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees, who were the leaders of the people. We have seen that the Pharisees were always enemies to Jesus. So the Pharisees asked him to tell again how he had gained his sight; and he told them: "The man named Jesus smeared some mud on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see." Some of the Pharisees said, "This man Jesus cannot be from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath." The scribes had made a rule that mixing up mud on the Sabbath day was working; that carrying it from one place to another was bearing a load; and that to give any treatment to a sick man on the Sabbath, unless it was necessary to save his life, was Sabbath breaking. So to their eyes, Jesus in curing the blind man had broken the Sabbath rules in more than one way. But some others said, "How can a bad man do such wonderful works? Is not this work of cure a sign that God is with him?" So there were two parties among them in their opinion about Jesus. They asked the blind man again: "What do you say of this man who has opened your eyes?"