The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

13 They brought to the Pharisees [the man] who had been blind. 14 Now [the day] on which[fn] Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath. 15 So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight.

[The man] answered “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and [now] I can see.”

16 Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.”

But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?”

And there was division among them. 17 So once again they asked the [man who had been] blind, “What {do} you say about Him, since [it was] your eyes He opened?”

“He is a prophet,” [the man] replied.

18 The Jews still {did} not believe that [the man] had been blind and had received his sight until they summoned [his] parents 19 and asked “Is this your son, [the one] you say was born blind? So how [is it that] he can now see

20 His parents answered “We know he is our son, and [we know] he was born blind. 21 But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we {do} not know. He is of age. Ask him. He can speak for himself.[fn]”

22 His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed [Jesus] [as the] Christ would be put out of the synagogue. 23 That was why his parents said “He is old enough. Ask him.”

24 So a second time they called for the man who had been blind and said “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.”

25 He answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. [There is] one [thing] I do know: I was blind, [but] now I see!”

26 “What did He do to you?” they asked again.[fn] “How did He open your eyes?”

27 He replied “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear [it] again? {Do} you also want to become His disciples?”

28 Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses. 29 We know that God spoke to Moses, but we do not know where this [man] is {from}.”

30 “That is remarkable indeed!” the man said You {do} not know where He is {from}, and yet He opened my eyes. 31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but He does listen to the one who worships [Him] and does His will. 32 Never before {has} anyone heard of opening [the] eyes of a man born blind. 33 If this [man] were not from God, He could do no such thing.”

34 They replied “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.