in which lay a great multitude of sick folk: of blind, halt, and withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth;

And his disciples asked him saying, "Master, who did sin: this man, or his father and mother, that he was born blind?"

As soon as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind,

Then brought they to the Pharisees, him that a little before was blind.

Then spake they unto the blind again, "What sayest thou of him, because he hath opened thine eyes?" And he said, "He is a prophet."

But the Jews did not believe of the fellow, how that he was blind, and received his sight: until they had called the father and mother of him that had received his sight.

And they asked them saying, "Is this your son, whom ye say was born blind? How doth he now see then?"

His father and mother answered them and said, "We know well that this is our son, and that he was born blind.

Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, "Give God the praise; we know that this man is a sinner."

He answered and said, "Whether he be a sinner or no, I cannot tell. One thing I am sure of: that I was blind, and now I see."

Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.

Jesus said, "I am come unto judgment, into this world: that they which see not, might see, and they which see might be made blind."

And some of the Pharisees which were with him, heard these words and said unto him, "Are we then blind?"

Jesus said unto them, "If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, 'We see.' Therefore your sin remaineth."

Others said, "These are not the words of him that hath the devil: Can the devil open the eyes of the blind?"

And some of them said, "Could not he which opened the eyes of the blind, have made also, that this man should not have died?"

"He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their hearts: that they should not see with their eyes, and understand with their hearts, and should be converted and I should heal them."