Numbers 11:31-35 and John 9:35-41 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 11:31-35
THE LORD SENDS QUAILS
31  Now the Lord sent a wind that brought quail from the sea and let them fall all around the camp. For miles in every direction there were quail flying about three feet above the ground.
32  So the people went out and caught quail all that day and throughout the night and all the next day, too. No one gathered less than fifty bushels! They spread the quail all around the camp to dry.
33  But while they were gorging themselves on the meat—while it was still in their mouths—the anger of the Lord blazed against the people, and he struck them with a severe plague.
34  So that place was called Kibroth-hattaavah (which means “graves of gluttony”) because there they buried the people who had craved meat from Egypt.
35  From Kibroth-hattaavah the Israelites traveled to Hazeroth, where they stayed for some time.

JOHN 9:35-41
SPIRITUAL BLINDNESS

35  When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

36  The man answered, “Who is he, sir? I want to believe in him.”

37  “You have seen him,” Jesus said, “and he is speaking to you!”

38  “Yes, Lord, I believe!” the man said. And he worshiped Jesus.

39  Then Jesus told him, “I entered this world to render judgment—to give sight to the blind and to show those who think they see that they are blind.”

40  Some Pharisees who were standing nearby heard him and asked, “Are you saying we’re blind?”

41  “If you were blind, you wouldn’t be guilty,” Jesus replied. “But you remain guilty because you claim you can see.

Numbers 11:16-30 and John 9:13-34 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 11:16-30
MOSES CHOOSES SEVENTY LEADERS

16  Then the Lord said to Moses, “Gather before me seventy men who are recognized as elders and leaders of Israel. Bring them to the Tabernacle to stand there with you. 

17  I will come down and talk to you there. I will take some of the Spirit that is upon you, and I will put the Spirit upon them also. They will bear the burden of the people along with you, so you will not have to carry it alone.

18  “And say to the people, ‘Purify yourselves, for tomorrow you will have meat to eat. You were whining, and the Lord heard you when you cried, “Oh, for some meat! We were better off in Egypt!” Now the Lord will give you meat, and you will have to eat it. 

19  And it won’t be for just a day or two, or for five or ten or even twenty. 

20  You will eat it for a whole month until you gag and are sick of it. For you have rejected the Lord, who is here among you, and you have whined to him, saying, “Why did we ever leave Egypt?”’”

21  But Moses responded to the Lord, “There are 600,000 foot soldiers here with me, and yet you say, ‘I will give them meat for a whole month!’ 

22  Even if we butchered all our flocks and herds, would that satisfy them? Even if we caught all the fish in the sea, would that be enough?”

23  Then the Lord said to Moses, “Has my arm lost its power? Now you will see whether or not my word comes true!”

24  So Moses went out and reported the Lord’s words to the people. He gathered the seventy elders and stationed them around the Tabernacle.

25  And the Lord came down in the cloud and spoke to Moses. Then he gave the seventy elders the same Spirit that was upon Moses. And when the Spirit rested upon them, they prophesied. But this never happened again.

26  Two men, Eldad and Medad, had stayed behind in the camp. They were listed among the elders, but they had not gone out to the Tabernacle. Yet the Spirit rested upon them as well, so they prophesied there in the camp. 

27  A young man ran and reported to Moses, “Eldad and Medad are prophesying in the camp!”

28  Joshua son of Nun, who had been Moses’ assistant since his youth, protested, “Moses, my master, make them stop!”

29  But Moses replied, “Are you jealous for my sake? I wish that all the Lord’s people were prophets and that the Lord would put his Spirit upon them all!” 

30  Then Moses returned to the camp with the elders of Israel.

JOHN 9:13-34

THE PHARISEES INVESTIGATE THE HEALING

13  Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees,
14  because it was on the Sabbath that Jesus had made the mud and healed him.
15  The Pharisees asked the man all about it. So he told them, “He put the mud over my eyes, and when I washed it away, I could see!”
16  Some of the Pharisees said, “This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath.” Others said, “But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?” So there was a deep division of opinion among them.
17  Then the Pharisees again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded, “What’s your opinion about this man who healed you?”  The man replied, “I think he must be a prophet.”
18  The Jewish leaders still refused to believe the man had been blind and could now see, so they called in his parents.
19  They asked them, “Is this your son? Was he born blind? If so, how can he now see?”
20  His parents replied, “We know this is our son and that he was born blind,
21  but we don’t know how he can see or who healed him. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
22  His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who had announced that anyone saying Jesus was the Messiah would be expelled from the synagogue.
23  That’s why they said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”
24  So for the second time they called in the man who had been blind and told him, “God should get the glory for this, because we know this man Jesus is a sinner.”
25  “I don’t know whether he is a sinner,” the man replied. “But I know this: I was blind, and now I can see!”
26  “But what did he do?” they asked. “How did he heal you?”
27  “Look!” the man exclaimed. “I told you once. Didn’t you listen? Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his disciples, too?”
28  Then they cursed him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses!
29  We know God spoke to Moses, but we don’t even know where this man comes from.”
30  “Why, that’s very strange!” the man replied. “He healed my eyes, and yet you don’t know where he comes from?
31  We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but he is ready to hear those who worship him and do his will.
32  Ever since the world began, no one has been able to open the eyes of someone born blind.
33  If this man were not from God, he couldn’t have done it.”
34  “You were born a total sinner!” they answered. “Are you trying to teach us?” And they threw him out of the synagogue.

Numbers 11:4-15 and John 9:1-12 (New Living Translation)

NUMBERS 11:4-15
MOSES CHOOSES SEVENTY LEADERS
4    Then the foreign rabble who were traveling with the Israelites began to crave the good things of Egypt. And the people of Israel also began to complain. “Oh, for some meat!” they exclaimed.
5    “We remember the fish we used to eat for free in Egypt. And we had all the cucumbers, melons, leeks, onions, and garlic we wanted.
6    But now our appetites are gone. All we ever see is this manna!”
7    The manna looked like small coriander seeds, and it was pale yellow like gum resin.
8    The people would go out and gather it from the ground. They made flour by grinding it with hand mills or pounding it in mortars. Then they boiled it in a pot and made it into flat cakes. These cakes tasted like pastries baked with olive oil.
9    The manna came down on the camp with the dew during the night.
10  Moses heard all the families standing in the doorways of their tents whining, and the Lord became extremely angry. Moses was also very aggravated.
11  And Moses said to the Lord, “Why are you treating me, your servant, so harshly? Have mercy on me! What did I do to deserve the burden of all these people?
12  Did I give birth to them? Did I bring them into the world? Why did you tell me to carry them in my arms like a mother carries a nursing baby? How can I carry them to the land you swore to give their ancestors?
13  Where am I supposed to get meat for all these people? They keep whining to me, saying, ‘Give us meat to eat!’
14  I can’t carry all these people by myself! The load is far too heavy!
15  If this is how you intend to treat me, just go ahead and kill me. Do me a favor and spare me this misery!”

JOHN 9:1-12
JESUS HEALS A MAN BORN BLIND

1    As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth. 

2    “Rabbi,” his disciples asked him, “why was this man born blind? Was it because of his own sins or his parents’ sins?”

3    “It was not because of his sins or his parents’ sins,” Jesus answered. “This happened so the power of God could be seen in him. 

4    We must quickly carry out the tasks assigned us by the one who sent us. The night is coming, and then no one can work. 

5    But while I am here in the world, I am the light of the world.”

6    Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man’s eyes. 

7    He told him, “Go wash yourself in the pool of Siloam” (Siloam means “sent”). So the man went and washed and came back seeing!

8    His neighbors and others who knew him as a blind beggar asked each other, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?” 

9    Some said he was, and others said, “No, he just looks like him!”  But the beggar kept saying, “Yes, I am the same one!”

10  They asked, “Who healed you? What happened?”

11  He told them, “The man they call Jesus made mud and spread it over my eyes and told me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam and wash yourself.’ So I went and washed, and now I can see!”

12  “Where is he now?” they asked.  “I don’t know,” he replied.