John 9:13-38

13The people brought the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

14It was a Jewish day of rest when Jesus had done this miracle. He had used mud to make the man's eyes able to see.

15So the Pharisees asked the man again, ‘How did you become able to see?’ The man replied, ‘Jesus put mud on my eyes. Then I washed, and now I can see.’

16So some of the Pharisees said, ‘This man Jesus cannot have come from God. He does not obey the rules about our day of rest.’ But other Pharisees said, ‘Nobody who is bad could do great things like this!’ So they did not agree with each other.

17The Pharisees spoke again to the man who had been blind. They said to him, ‘What do you yourself say about this man? It was your eyes he has now made able to see.’ The man replied, ‘He is a prophet.’

18The Jewish leaders still did not believe that the man had really been blind. They did not want to believe that he had now become able to see. So they told the man's parents to come to them.

19They asked the parents, ‘Is this your son? You say, “When he was born, he was blind.” But now he can see. How did this happen?’

20The parents replied, ‘We know that this is our son. And when he was born, he was blind. We know that, too.

21But we do not know how he can see now. We do not know who made his eyes able to see. Ask him. He is old enough to answer you for himself!’

22The man's parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. The Jewish leaders did not want anyone to say that Jesus was the Messiah. They would not let anyone like that belong to their meeting places.

23That is why the man's parents said, ‘Ask him. He is old enough.’

24So the leaders again spoke to the man who had been blind. They said to him, ‘In front of God, promise that you will speak only true things. We know that this man Jesus does not obey God.’

25The man replied, ‘I do not know whether he obeys God or not. But I do know one thing: I was blind and now I can see.’

26Then they asked him, ‘What did he do to you? How did he make your eyes able to see?’

27He answered them, ‘I have told you already and you would not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Maybe you want to become his disciples too!’

28Then the leaders were very angry with him. They shouted at him, ‘No, it is you! You are that man's disciple. But we are disciples of Moses.

29We know that God spoke to Moses. But who is this man? We do not even know where he comes from.’

30The man answered, ‘That is a very strange thing! You do not know where this man comes from. But he is the one who made my eyes able to see.

31We know that God does not listen to people who do not obey him. But he does listen to good people who do what he wants them to do.

32Nobody has ever made the eyes of a blind man able to see, if that man had been blind when he was born. Since the world began, that has never happened!

33So this man Jesus must have come from God. Unless he came from God, he could not do anything like that.’

34The Jewish leaders answered him, ‘Since the day that you were born, you have never obeyed God's laws. You cannot teach us anything!’ And they threw him out of the meeting place.

35Jesus heard that the Jewish leaders had thrown the man out. So he went and he found the man. Jesus asked him, ‘Do you believe in the Son of Man?’

36The man answered, ‘Sir, please tell me who he is. Then I can believe in him.’

37Jesus said to him, ‘You have already seen him. It is me, the one who is talking to you now.’

38Then the man said, ‘Lord, now I believe.’ He bent down on his knees and he worshipped Jesus.