They said to him,
“Give glory to God, not Jesus, because we know he is a sinner.”
The man answered,
“Whether he is a sinner or not I do not know, but I do know one thing, I was blind and now I can see.“
They said to him,
“What did he do to you?”
The man answered,
“I have told you over and over what he did.
Do you want to hear it again?
Would you like to become one of his disciples?”
The Pharisees, after hearing this, reviled the man and said,
“You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. We know that God spoke to Moses, we don’t know who this man is.”
The man said,
“Why, here is a real mystery. He opened my eyes and yet you do not know who he is.
We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a true worshipper of God and does his will, he will listen to that man.
Since the world began, I have never heard of a man who was born blind who had his eyes opened and received his sight.
If Jesus were not from God, he could do nothing.”
The Pharisees became indignant and told the man whom Jesus had healed of blindness,
“You were born into sin, and you presume to teach us?”
They threw him out.
Jesus heard that they dismissed him from the assembly, and he went and found him.
Jesus said to the man,
“Do you believe in the Son of God?”
He answered,
“Who is he Lord, that I might believe in him?”
Jesus said,
“You have both seen him and he is the one who is speaking to you right now.”
The man said,
“Lord, I believe.”
Then the man fell down his knees and worshipped Jesus.
Jesus summed this incident by saying,
“Judgment came into this world so that those who could not see can now see, and those who can see have become blind.”
There were Pharisees nearby who heard what Jesus said. They asked Jesus,
“Are you saying that we are blind?”
Jesus answered,
“If you were blind, you would have no sin. But because you say that you see, your sin remains.”
