AND as he passed along, he saw a man blind from his birth.

And his disciples inquired of him, saying, Rabbi, who was in fault, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?

So speaking, he spat on the ground, and made mud with the spittle, and anointed with the mud the eyes of the blind man;

The neighbours therefore, and they who saw him formerly, that he was blind, said, Is not this the man who was sitting and begging?

They brought him to the Pharisees, who had before been blind.

They say to the blind man again, What sayest thou of him? that he opened thine eyes? Then he replied, That he is a prophet.

Then the Jews did not believe that he had been blind, and received sight, until that they had called the parents of him who had received sight.

And they questioned them, saying, Is this your son, of whom ye say, that he was born blind? how then doth he now see?

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

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

Then answered he and said, Whether this man be a sinner, I know not: one thing I do know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

From the creation of the world hath it never been heard, that any man opened the eyes of one born blind.

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

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

Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye should not have had sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin is permanent.

Others said, These are not the discourses of a demoniac. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

But some of them said, Could not this man, who openeth the eyes of the blind, have caused that this person should not have died?

In these lay a vast multitude of infirm persons, blind, lame, withered, waiting the motion of the water.

"He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts; lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with the heart, and be converted, and I should heal them."