²¹ But others said, “These are not the sayings of a man possessed by a demon.^(A) Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”^(B)

¹¹ The Lord said to him, “Who gave human beings their mouths? Who makes them deaf or mute?^(A) Who gives them sight or makes them blind?^(B) Is it not I, the Lord?

⁵ The blind receive sight, the lame walk, those who have leprosy^[a] are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the good news is proclaimed to the poor.^(A)

³² Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. ³³ If this man were not from God,^(A) he could do nothing.”

⁶ After saying this, he spit^(A) on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.

²⁴ News about him spread all over Syria,^(A) and people brought to him all who were ill with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, the demon-possessed,^(B) those having seizures,^(C) and the paralyzed;^(D) and he healed them.