'Blind' in the Bible

In these there used to lie a great number of sick persons, and of people who were blind or lame or paralyzed.

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

So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"

"Neither he nor his parents sinned," answered Jesus, "but he was born blind in order that God's mercy might be openly shown in him.

They brought him to the Pharisees--the man who had been blind.

And there was a division among them. So again they asked the once blind man, "What is your account of him? --for he opened your eyes." "He is a Prophet," he replied.

The Jews, however, did not believe the statement concerning him--that he had been blind and had obtained his sight--until they called his parents and asked them,

"Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it then that he can now see?"

"We know," replied the parents, "that this is our son and that he was born blind;

A second time therefore they called the man who had been blind, and said, "Give God the praise: we know that that man is a sinner."

"Whether he is a sinner or not, I do not know," he replied; "one thing I know--that I was once blind and that now I can see."

From the beginning of the world such a thing was never heard of as that any one should open the eyes of a man blind from his birth.

"I came into this world," said Jesus, "to judge men, that those who do not see may see, and that those who do see may become blind."

These words were heard by those of the Pharisees who were present, and they asked Him, "Are *we* also blind?"

"If you were blind," answered Jesus, "you would have no sin; but as a matter of fact you boast that you see. So your sin remains!"

Others argued, "That is not the language of a demoniac: and can a demon open blind men's eyes?"

But others of them asked, "Was this man who opened the blind man's eyes unable to prevent this man from dying?"