John 9:20

20 So his parents answered and said, "We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind.

John 9:20 Meaning and Commentary

John 9:20

His parents answered them, and said
What follows, which contains distinct answers to the several questions: and to the first they reply very freely, and with great confidence,

we know that this is our son;
for though his receiving his sight made a considerable alteration in him, yet his features were the same; and there might be some marks in his body, which they were acquainted with, by which they knew assuredly he was their son: and if even the neighbours, though they disagreed about him, yet some of them knew him to be the same person that had been blind and begged, then much more his parents; and even those who said it was not he, yet they owned he was like him: and with respect to the second question they answer,

and that he was born blind:
this they were ready to attest, and did attest.

John 9:20 In-Context

18 So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one who received sight.

19 And they asked them, saying, "Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?"

20 So his parents answered and said, "We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind.

21 But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him! {He is a mature adult}; he will speak for himself!"

22 (His parents said these [things] because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him [to be] Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.