New Testament in a Year

²⁴ The Jewish leaders^[a] summoned the man who had been blind a second time and told him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

²⁵ But he responded, “I don’t know whether he is a sinner or not. The one thing I do know is that I used to be blind and now I can see!”

²⁶ Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he heal^[b] your eyes?”

²⁷ He answered them, “I’ve already told you, but you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don’t want to become his disciples, too, do you?”

²⁸ At this, they turned on him in fury and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses! ²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this fellow comes from.”

³⁰ The man answered them, “This is an amazing thing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he healed^[c] my eyes. ³¹ We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does his will. ³² Ever since creation it has never been heard that anyone healed^[d] the eyes of a man who was born blind. ³³ If this man were not from God, he couldn’t do anything like that.”

³⁴ They asked him, “You were born a sinner^[e] and you are trying to instruct us?” And they threw him out.

Spiritual Blindness

³⁵ Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”^[f]

³⁶ He answered, “And who is he, sir?^[g] Tell me,^[h] so that I may believe in him.”

³⁷ Jesus told him, “You have seen him. He is the person who is talking with you.”

³⁸ He said, “Lord, I do believe,” and worshipped him.

³⁹ Then Jesus said, “I have come into this world to judge it, so that those who are blind may see and so that those who see may become blind.”

⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees who were near him overheard this and asked him, “We aren’t blind, too, are we?”

⁴¹ Jesus told them, “If you were blind, you would not have any sin. But now that you insist, ‘We see,’ your sin still exists.”