and in these there used to lie a great crowd of sick people, blind, crippled, paralyzed.

As He passed along, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

So His disciples asked Him, "Teacher, for whose sin was this man born blind, his own or that of his parents?"

Now his neighbors and those who saw that he was formerly blind, kept saying, "Is not this the man who used to sit and beg?"

They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.

Then again they asked the blind man, "What do you say about Him yourself, since He has made your eyes to see?" He answered, "He is a prophet."

But the Jews did not believe that he had really been blind and that he had come to see again, until they called the parents of the man who saw again,

and asked them, "Is this your son, and do you affirm that he was born blind? If so, how is it then that he now can see?"

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

So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give God the praise; we know this man is a sinner."

Then he answered, "I do not know whether He is a sinner. I do know one thing, that once I was blind but now I can see."

It has never been heard of in this world that anyone ever made the eyes of a man who was born blind to see.

Then Jesus said, "I have come into this world to judge people, so that those who do not see may see, and those who do see may become blind."

Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and asked Him, "We are not blind, are we?"

Jesus answered them, "If you were blind, you would not be guilty, but now you keep on claiming, 'We can see'; so your sin remains."

Others said, "These are not the words of a man who is under the power of a demon. A demon cannot make the eyes of the blind see, can he?"

But some of them said, "Could not this man, who made that blind man see, have kept Lazarus from dying?"

"He has blinded their eyes and benumbed their hearts, so that they cannot see with their eyes and understand with their hearts, and turn to me to cure them."