Old/New Testament

²⁴ So, once again they summoned the man who had been born blind and said to him, “You should ‘give God the glory’ for what has happened to you. We know that this man is a sinner.”

²⁵ “Whether he is a sinner or not, I couldn’t tell, but one thing I am sure of,” the man replied, “I used to be blind, now I can see!”

²⁶ “But what did he do to you—how did he make you see?” they continued.

²⁷ “I’ve told you before,” he replied. “Weren’t you listening? Why do you want to hear it all over again? Are you wanting to be his disciples too?”

^28-29 At this, they turned on him furiously. “You’re the one who is his disciple! We are disciples of Moses. We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this man, we don’t even know where he came from.”

^30-33 “Now here’s the extraordinary thing,” he retorted, “you don’t know where he came from and yet he gave me the gift of sight. Everybody knows that God does not listen to sinners. It is the man who has a proper respect for God and does what God wants him to do—he’s the one God listens to. Why, since the world began, nobody’s ever heard of a man who was born blind being given his sight. If this man did not come from God, he couldn’t do such a thing!”

³⁴ “You misbegotten wretch!” they flung back at him. “Are you trying to teach us?” And they threw him out.

³⁵ Jesus heard that they had expelled him and when he had found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

³⁶ “And who is he, sir?” the man replied. “Tell me, so that I can believe in him.”

³⁷ “You have seen him,” replied Jesus. “It is the one who is talking to you now.”

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

³⁹ Then Jesus said, “My coming into this world is itself a judgment—those who cannot see have their eyes opened and those who think they can see become blind.”

⁴⁰ Some of the Pharisees near him overheard this and said, “So we’re blind, too, are we?”

⁴¹ “If you were blind,” returned Jesus, “nobody could blame you, but, as you insist ‘We can see’, your guilt remains.”