And as he passed by, he saw a man that had been blind from his birth.

And his disciples asked him, saying: Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

Having said this, he spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and spread the clay on the eyes of the blind man,

Then his neighbors, and those who had before seen him, that he was blind, said: Is not this he that sat and begged?

They brought to the Pharisees him that had formerly been blind.

Again they said to the blind man: What say you of him, seeing that he opened your eyes? He said: He is a prophet.

The Jews did not, therefore, believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and had received his sight, till they called the parents of him that had received his sight,

and asked them, saying: Is this your son, who, you say, was born blind? How, then, does he now see?

His parents answered them, and said: We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

Then, the second time, they called the man who had been blind, and said to him: Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner.

He answered and said: If he is a sinner, I know it not. One thing I do know, that having been blind, I now see.

Since the beginning it has not been heard that any one opened the eyes of one who had been born blind.

And Jesus said: For judgment have I come into this world, that those who see not, may see; and that those who see, may become blind.

And some of the Pharisees who were with him, heard these things, and said to him: Are we also blind?

Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you would not have sin; but now you say, We see; therefore your sin remains.

Others said: These are not the words of one that has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?

And some of them said: Could not he, who opened the eyes of the blind man, have caused that even this man should not have died?

He has blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and should turn, and I should give them health.