John 9:11-34

¹¹he answered and said, 'A man called Jesus made clay, and rubbed my eyes, and said to me, Go away to the pool of Siloam, and wash; and having gone away and having washed, I received sight;'

¹²they said, therefore, to him, 'Where is that one?' he saith, 'I have not known.'

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.'

²⁶And they said to him again, 'What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'

²⁷He answered them, 'I told you already, and ye did not hear; why again do ye wish to hear? do ye also wish to become his disciples?'

²⁸They reviled him, therefore, and said, 'Thou art his disciple, and we are Moses' disciples;

²⁹we have known that God hath spoken to Moses, but this one — we have not known whence he is.'

³⁰The man answered and said to them, 'Why, in this is a wonderful thing, that ye have not known whence he is, and he opened my eyes!

³¹and we have known that God doth not hear sinners, but, if any one may be a worshipper of God, and may do His will, him He doth hear;

³²from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind;

³³if this one were not from God, he were not able to do anything.'

³⁴They answered and said to him, 'In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without.