In these lay a great multitude of impotent persons, of blind, halt, withered, waiting for the moving of the water.

And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man who was blind from his birth.

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

When he had thus spoken, he spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

The neighbors therefore, and they who before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

They brought to the Pharisees him that before was blind.

They say to the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thy eyes? He said, He is a prophet.

But the Jews 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 them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:

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

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

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

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

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

Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

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

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

He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart; that they should not see with their eyes, nor understand with their heart, and be converted, and I should heal them.