¹³They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. ¹⁴The day Jesus made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath. ¹⁵So the Pharisees also asked him how he was able to see.

“He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied. “Then I washed. And now I can see.”

¹⁶Some of the Pharisees said, “Jesus has not come from God. He does not keep the Sabbath day.”

But others asked, “How can a sinner do such miraculous signs?”

So the Pharisees did not agree with each other.

¹⁷Finally they turned again to the blind man. “What do you have to say about him?” they asked. “It was your eyes he opened.”

The man replied, “He is a prophet.”

¹⁸The Jews still did not believe that the man had been blind and now could see. So they sent for his parents. ¹⁹“Is this your son?” they asked. “Is this the one you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?”

²⁰“We know he is our son,” the parents answered. “And we know he was born blind. ²¹But we don’t know how he can now see. And we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is an adult. He can speak for himself.”

²²His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. The Jews had already decided that anyone who said Jesus was the Christ would be put out of the synagogue. ²³That was why the man’s parents said, “He is an adult. Ask him.”

²⁴Again they called the man who had been blind to come to them. “Give glory to God by telling the truth!” they said. “We know that the man who healed you is a sinner.”

²⁵He replied, “I don’t know if he is a sinner or not. I do know one thing. I was blind, but now I can 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.”