John 9:13–25

¹³They bring him to the Pharisees who once was blind, ¹⁴and it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. ¹⁵Again, therefore, the Pharisees also were asking him how he received sight, and he said to them, ‘Clay he did put upon my eyes, and I did wash—and I see.’ ¹⁶Of the Pharisees, therefore, certain said, ‘This man is not from God, because the sabbath he doth not keep;’ others said, ‘How is a man—a sinful one—able to do such signs?’ and there was a division among them. ¹⁷They said to the blind man again, ‘Thou—what dost thou say of him—that he opened thine eyes?’ ¹⁸and he said—‘He is a prophet.’ The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight, ¹⁹and they asked them, saying, ‘Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?’ ²⁰His parents answered them and said, ‘We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind; ²¹and how he now seeth, we have not known; or who opened his eyes, we have not known; himself is of age, ask him; he himself shall speak concerning himself.’ ²²These things said his parents, because they were afraid of the Jews, for already had the Jews agreed together, that if any one may confess him—Christ, he may be put out of the synagogue; ²³because of this his parents said—‘He is of age, ask him.’ ²⁴They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, ‘Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;’ ²⁵he answered, therefore, and said, ‘If he be a sinner—I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.’