¹³Then the people took to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. ¹⁴The day Jesus had made mud and healed his eyes was a Sabbath day. ¹⁵So now the Pharisees asked the man, “How did you get your sight?”

He answered, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and now I see.”

¹⁶So some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man does not keep the Sabbath day, so he is not from God.”

But others said, “A man who is a sinner can’t do miracles like these.” So they could not agree with each other.

¹⁷They asked the man again, “What do you say about him since it was your eyes he opened?”

The man answered, “He is a prophet.”

¹⁸These leaders did not believe that he had been blind and could now see again. So they sent for the man’s parents ¹⁹and asked them, “Is this your son who you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

²⁰His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. ²¹But we don’t know how he can now see. We don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.” ²²His parents said this because they were afraid of the elders, who had already decided that anyone who said Jesus was the Christ would be avoided. ²³That is why his parents said, “He is old enough. Ask him.”

²⁴So for the second time, they called the man who had been blind. They said, “You should give God the glory by telling the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.”

²⁵He answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.”

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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.”