¹⁵ The man went away and told the Jewish leaders^(A) that it was Jesus who had made him well.

²⁹ “Come, see a man who told me everything I ever did.^(A) Could this be the Messiah?”^(B)

³⁴ To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth;^(A) how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out.^(B)

³⁰ The man answered, “Now that is remarkable! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

²⁵ He replied, “Whether he is a sinner or not, I don’t know. One thing I do know. I was blind but now I see!”

¹⁵ Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight.^(A) “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”

¹¹ He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”^(A)

¹² “Where is this man?” they asked him.

“I don’t know,” he said.

¹² So they asked him, “Who is this fellow who told you to pick it up and walk?”

John the Baptist Denies Being the Messiah

¹⁹ Now this was John’s^(A) testimony when the Jewish leaders^[a](B) in Jerusalem sent priests and Levites to ask him who he was.

⁴⁵ Instead he went out and began to talk freely, spreading the news. As a result, Jesus could no longer enter a town openly but stayed outside in lonely places.^(A) Yet the people still came to him from everywhere.^(B)