John 9:16-23

¹⁶Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God because he does not keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” So there was a division among them.

¹⁷So they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?” The blind man said, “He is a prophet.”

¹⁸Now the Jews still did not believe about him that he was blind and had received his sight until they called the parents of him who had received his sight.

¹⁹They asked the parents, “Is this your son whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

²⁰So his parents answered them, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

²¹How he now sees, we do not know, and who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him, he is an adult. He can speak for himself.”

²²His parents said these things, because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed that if anyone would confess him to be the Christ, he would be thrown out of the synagogue.

²³Because of this, his parents said, “He is an adult, ask him.”