The Healed Man’s Testimony

¹³ They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.^{(A) 14} The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.^{(B) 15} Then the Pharisees asked him again how he received his sight.

“He put mud on my eyes,” he told them. “I washed and I can see.”

¹⁶ Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God,^(C) because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” But others were saying, “How can a sinful man^(D) perform such signs?” And there was a division^(E) among them.

¹⁷ Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?”

“He’s a prophet,”^(F) he said.

¹⁸ The Jews did not believe this about him—that he was blind and received sight—until they summoned the parents of the one who had received his sight.

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

²⁰ “We know this is our son and that he was born blind,” his parents answered. ²¹ “But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.” ²² His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, since the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him as the Messiah,^(G) he would be banned from the synagogue. ²³ This is why his parents said, “He’s of age; ask him.”

²⁴ So a second time they summoned the man who had been blind and told him, “Give glory^(H) to God.^(I) We know that this man is a sinner.”

²⁵ He answered, “Whether or not he’s a sinner, I don’t know. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I can see!”

²⁶ Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

²⁷ “I already told you,” he said, “and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”

²⁸ They ridiculed him: “You’re that man’s disciple, but we’re Moses’s^(J) disciples. ²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we don’t know where he’s from.”^(K)

³⁰ “This is an amazing thing!” the man told them. “You don’t know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes. ³¹ We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners,^(L) but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will,^(M) he listens to him.^{(N) 32} Throughout history^[a] no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.^{(O) 33} If this man were not from God, he wouldn’t be able to do anything.”^(P)

³⁴ “You were born entirely in sin,”^(Q) they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out.^(R)