in these were lying a great multitude of the ailing, blind, lame, withered, waiting for the moving of the water,

And passing by, he saw a man blind from birth,

and his disciples asked him, saying, 'Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'

These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,

the neighbours, therefore, and those seeing him before, that he was blind, said, 'Is not this he who is sitting and begging?'

They bring him to the Pharisees who once was blind,

They said to the blind man again, 'Thou -- what dost thou say of him -- that he opened thine eyes?'

and he said -- 'He is a prophet.' The Jews, therefore, did not believe concerning him that he was blind and did receive sight, till that they called the parents of him who received sight,

and they asked them, saying, 'Is your son, of whom ye say that he was born blind? how then now doth he see?'

His parents answered them and said, 'We have known that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

They called, therefore, a second time the man who was blind, and they said to him, 'Give glory to God, we have known that this man is a sinner;'

he answered, therefore, and said, 'If he be a sinner -- I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'

from the age it was not heard, that any one did open eyes of one who hath been born blind;

And Jesus said, 'For judgment I to this world did come, that those not seeing may see, and those seeing may become blind.'

And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and they said to him, 'Are we also blind?'

Jesus said to them, 'If ye were blind, ye were not having had sin, but now ye say -- We see, therefore doth your sin remain.

others said, 'These sayings are not those of a demoniac; is a demon able blind men's eyes to open?'

and certain of them said, 'Was not this one, who did open the eyes of the blind man, able to cause that also this one might not have died?'

'He hath blinded their eyes, and hardened their heart, that they might not see with the eyes, and understand with the heart, and turn back, and I might heal them;'