In these were lying a multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, withered, [waiting for the moving of the waters:

And, passing along, he saw a man 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 was once blind.

They say, therefore, to the blind man again, "What do you say about Him, seeing that He opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a Prophet."

The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him, that he was blind, and received sight, until they called the parents of him who received sight,

and asked them, "Is this your son, who ye say, was born blind? How, then, does he now see?"

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

Therefore, they called a second time the man who was 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, though I was blind, now I see."

From remotest antiquity, it was never heard that any one opened the eyes of one born blind!

And Jesus said, "For judgment came I into the world; that those who see not may see, and that those who see may become blind."

Those of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these things, and said to Him, "Are we also blind?"

Jesus said to them, "If ye were blind, ye would have no sin; but now ye say, 'We see,' your sin abides."

Others said, "These are not the sayings of a demoniac. 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 die?"

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