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Berean Standard Bible

“When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.”

John 9:6

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Jesus and his disciples meet a man blind from birth, and the disciples ask whose sin caused it. Jesus rejects that framing and says the man's condition is an occasion for God's works to be seen.

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Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.

World English Bible (WEB)

When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,

King James Version (KJV)

When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

American Standard Version (ASV)

When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,

Bible in Basic English (BBE)

Having said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's eyes,

Young's Literal Translation (YLT)

These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,

Reina-Valera 1909 (RVR 1909)

Esto dicho, escupió en tierra, é hizo lodo con la saliva, y untó con el lodo sobre los ojos del ciego,

Sagradas Escrituras 1569 (SE 1569)

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Nueva Biblia Viva (NBV)

Al acabar de decir esto, escupió en el suelo, hizo lodo con la saliva, se lo untó al ciego en los ojos y le dijo:

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