John 9:16-32

¹⁶Then some of the Pharisees said, That man has not come from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath. Others said, How is it possible for a sinner to do such signs? So there was a division among them.

¹⁷Again they said to the blind man, What have you to say about him for opening your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

¹⁸Now the Jews had no belief in the statement that he had been blind and was now able to see, till they sent for the father and mother of the man whose eyes had been made open,

¹⁹And put the question to them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he was blind at birth? how is it then that he is now able to see?

²⁰In answer his father and mother said, We are certain that this is our son and that he was blind at birth:

²¹But how it is he is now able to see, or who made his eyes open, we are not able to say: put the question to him; he is old enough to give an answer for himself.

²²They said this because of their fear of the Jews: for the Jews had come to an agreement that if any man said that Jesus was the Christ he would be put out of the Synagogue.

²³That was the reason why they said, He is old enough; put the question to him.

²⁴So they sent a second time for the man who had been blind and they said to him, Give glory to God: it is clear to us that this man is a sinner.

²⁵He said in answer, I have no knowledge if he is a sinner or not, but one thing I am certain about; I was blind, and now I see.

²⁶Then they said to him, What did he do to you? how did he give you the use of your eyes?

²⁷His answer was: I have said it before, but your ears were shut: why would you have me say it again? is it your desire to become his disciples?

²⁸And they were angry with him and said, You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses.

²⁹We are certain that God gave his word to Moses: but as for this man, we have no knowledge where he comes from.

³⁰The man said in answer, Why, here is a strange thing! You have no knowledge where he comes from though he gave me the use of my eyes.

³¹We have knowledge that God does not give ear to sinners, but if any man is a worshipper of God and does his pleasure, to him God's ears are open.

³²In all the years nobody has ever before seen the eyes of a man blind from birth made open.