John 9:13–25

Controversy over the Man

¹³They brought to the Pharisees the man who was formerly blind.

^14aNow it was a Sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.

^15aThen the Pharisees also were asking him again how he received his sight. And he said to them, “He applied clay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

¹⁶Therefore some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because He ^adoes not keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such ^1bsigns?” And ^cthere was a division among them.

¹⁷So they said to the blind man ^aagain, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a ^bprophet.”

^18aThe Jews then did not believe it of him, that he had been blind and had received sight, until they called the parents of the very one who had received his sight,

¹⁹and questioned them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

²⁰His parents answered them and said, “We know that this 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 of age, he will speak for himself.”

²²His parents said this because they ^awere afraid of the Jews; for the Jews ^bhad already agreed that if anyone confessed Him to be ¹Christ, ^che was to be put out of the synagogue.

²³For this reason his parents said, “^aHe is of age; ask him.”

²⁴So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, “^aGive glory to God; we know that ^bthis man is a sinner.”

²⁵He then answered, “Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; one thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.”