John 9:13–25

THE HEALED MAN’S TESTIMONY

¹³They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.^{c 14}The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.^{d 15}Then the Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

¹⁶Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God,^e because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man^f perform such signs?” And there was a division^g among them.

¹⁷Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?”

“He’s a prophet,”^h he said.

¹⁸The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

¹⁹They asked them, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

²⁰“We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered. ²¹“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.” ²²His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah,ⁱ he would be banned from the synagogue. ²³This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

²⁴So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory^j to God.^k We know that this man is a sinner.”

²⁵He answered, “Whether or not he’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”