¹³They brought him—the one formerly blind—to the Pharisees. ¹⁴(Now the day on which Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes was the Sabbath.) ¹⁵So the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received sight. And he said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶So some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!” Others^b were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them. ¹⁷So they said to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a prophet.”

¹⁸So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one^c who received sight. ¹⁹And they asked them, saying, “Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?” ²⁰So his parents answered and said, “We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind. ²¹But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him! He is a mature adult;^d he will speak for himself!” ²²(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him to be Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue. ²³Because of this his parents said, “He is a mature adult;^e ask him.”)

²⁴So they summoned the man who had been blind for the second time and said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner!” ²⁵Then that man replied, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I know—that although I^* was blind, now I see!” ²⁶So they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?” ²⁷He replied to them, “I told you already and you did not listen! Why do you want to hear it^* again? You do not want to become his disciples also, do you?”^* ²⁸They reviled^f him and said, “You are his disciple! But we are disciples of Moses! ²⁹We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.” ³⁰The man answered and said to them, “For the remarkable thing is this, that you do not know where he is from, and he opened my eyes! ³¹We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if someone is devout and does his will, he listens to this one. ³²From time immemorial^g it has not been heard that someone opened the eyes of one born blind. ³³If this man were not from God, he would not be able to do anything!” ³⁴They answered and said to him, “You were born completely in sin, and are you attempting to teach^* us?” And they threw him out.

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John 9:25: He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”

Footnotes

bSome manuscripts have “But others”
cLiterally “of him”
dLiterally “he has maturity”
eLiterally “he has maturity”
*Here “although” is supplied as a component of the participle (“was”) which is understood as concessive
*Here the direct object is supplied from context in the English translation
*The negative construction in Greek anticipates a negative answer here, indicated in the translation by the phrase “do you”
fSome manuscripts have “And they reviled”
gLiterally “the age”
*Here the present tense is translated as a conative present (“attempting to teach”)