Bible verses about "limits" | Moffatt

¹² This is what shows the patience of the saints — they who keep God's commands and the faith of Jesus.

¹ As he passed along he saw a man who had been blind from his birth; ² and his disciples asked him, "Rabbi, for whose sin — for his own or for his parents' — was he born blind?" ³ Jesus replied, "Neither for his own sin nor for his parents' — it was to let the work of God be illustrated in him. ⁴ While daylight lasts, we must be busy with the work of God: night comes, when no one can do any work. ⁵ When I am in the world, I am light for the world." ⁶ With these words he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, which he smeared on the man's eyes, ⁷ saying, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam meaning 'sent'). So off he went and washed them, and went home seeing. ⁸ Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?" ⁹ Some said, "It is"; others said, "No, but it is like him." He said, "I am the man." ¹⁰ So they asked him, "How were your eyes opened?" ¹¹ He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and smeared my eyes with it and told me, 'Go and wash them in Siloam'; so I went and washed them, and I got my sight." ¹² "Where is he?" they asked; he answered, "I do not know." ¹³ They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind. ¹⁴ Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see." ¹⁶ Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this. ¹⁷ So they asked the blind man once more, "What have you to say about him, for opening your eyes?" The man replied, "I say he is a prophet." ¹⁸ Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight ¹⁹ and asked them, "Is this your son, the son you declare was born blind? How is it that he can see now?" ²⁰ His parents answered, "This is our son, and he was born blind; we know that. ²¹ But how he can see to-day, we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask himself; he is of age, he can speak for himself." ²² (His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated. ²³ That was why the man's parents said, "He is of age, ask himself.") ²⁴ So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner." ²⁵ To which he replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner; one thing I do know, that once I was blind and now I can see." ²⁶ "What did he do to you?" they repeated; "How did he open your eyes?" ²⁷ He retorted, "I have told you that already, and you would not listen to me. Why do you want to hear it over again? Do you want to be disciples of his?" ²⁸ Then they stormed at him: "You are his disciple, we are disciples of Moses! ²⁹ We know God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from." ³⁰ The man replied to them, "Well, this is astonishing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes! ³¹ God, we know, does not listen to sinners; he listens to anyone who is devout and who obeys his will. ³² It is unheard of, since the world began, that anyone should open a blind man's eyes. ³³ If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." ³⁴ They retorted, "And so you would teach us — you, born in utter depravity!" Then they expelled him. ³⁵ Jesus heard that they had expelled him, and on meeting him he said, "You believe in the Son of man?" ³⁶ "Who is that, sir?" said the man, "tell me, that I may believe in him." ³⁷ "You have seen him," Jesus said, "he is talking to you." ³⁸ He said, "I do believe, Lord" — and he worshipped him. ³⁹ Then said Jesus, "It is for judgment that I have come into this world, to make the sightless see, to make the seeing blind." ⁴⁰ On hearing this the Pharisees who were beside him asked, "And are we blind?" ⁴¹ Jesus replied, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty; but, as it is, you claim to have sight — and so your sin remains."