And as he was passing along, he saw a man who 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?

They bring to the Pharisees him who had once been blind.

They say therefore to the blind man again, What dost thou say of him for having opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

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

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

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

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

He therefore answered, Whether he is a sinner, I know not; one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.

Since the world began, it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of a man born blind.

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

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this, and said to him, Are we also blind?

Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye would not have sin; but now ye say, We see. Your sin remaineth.

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

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

"He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; lest they should see with their eyes, and understand with their heart, and turn from their ways, and I should heal them."