John / Controversy with the Pharisees over the Healing

Controversy with the Pharisees over the Healing

John 9:13-34

Chapter 9

¹³ They brought him to the Pharisees—the one who had been blind. ¹⁴ It was the Sabbath on which Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. ¹⁵ Again they asked him, and the Pharisees, how he had recovered his sight. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” ¹⁶ Some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because he does not keep the Sabbath.” Others were saying, “How can a sinful man do such signs?” And there was a division among them. ¹⁷ They say to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.” ¹⁸ The Jews did not believe about him that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the one who had received his sight. ¹⁹ They asked them, "Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? How then does he now see?" ²⁰ His parents answered and said, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.” ²¹ "But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He has age; he will speak about himself." ²² His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone confessed him to be the Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue. ²³ For this reason his parents said, "He has reached the age of maturity; ask him." ²⁴ They called the man who had been blind a second time and said to him, "Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner." ²⁵ He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know; one thing I know, that though I was blind, now I see.” ²⁶ They said to him therefore, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?" ²⁷ He answered them, “I told you already, and you did not hear. Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become his disciples too, do you?” ²⁸ They insulted him and said, "You are a disciple of that one, but we are disciples of Moses." ²⁹ We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this one, we do not know where he is from. ³⁰ The man answered them, “The marvelous thing is that you do not know where he is from, yet he opened my eyes.” ³¹ We know that God does not hear sinners, but if anyone is God-fearing and does his will, he hears him. ³² From the beginning, it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind. ³³ If this one were not from God, he could not do anything. ³⁴ They answered and said to him, "You were born wholly in sins, and do you teach us?" And they threw him out.