John 9:9-18

⁹“Yes,” some said, “it is”; while others said, “No, but he is like him.” The man himself said, “I am he.”

¹⁰“How did you get your sight, then?” they asked.

¹¹“The man whom they call Jesus,” he answered, “made clay, and anointed my eyes, and said to me ‘Go to Siloam and wash your eyes.’ So I went and washed my eyes, and gained my sight.”

¹²“Where is he?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.

¹³They took the man, who had been blind, to the Pharisees.

¹⁴Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and gave him his sight.

¹⁵So the Pharisees also questioned the man as to how he had gained his sight. “He put clay on my eyes,” he answered, “and I washed them, and I can see.”

¹⁶“The man cannot be from God,” said some of the Pharisees, “for he does not keep the Sabbath.” “How is it possible,” retorted others, “for a bad man to give signs like this?”

¹⁷So there was a difference of opinion among them, and they again questioned the man; “What do you yourself say about him, for it is to you that he has given sight?”

¹⁸The religious authorities, however, refused to believe that he had been blind and had gained his sight, until they had called his parents and questioned them.