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They said to him, "Where is he?" and he replied, "I don't know."
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They took the man who had been blind to the P'rushim.
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Now the day on which Yeshua had made the mud and opened his eyes was Shabbat.
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So the P'rushim asked him again how he had become able to see; and he told them, "He put mud on my eyes, then I washed, and now I can see."
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At this, some of the P'rushim said, "This man is not from God, because he doesn't keep Shabbat." But others said, "How could a man who is a sinner do miracles like these?" And there was a split among them.
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So once more they spoke to the blind man: "Since you're the one whose eyes he opened, what do you say about him?" He replied: "He is a prophet."
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The Judeans, however, were unwilling to believe that he had formerly been blind, but now could see, until they had summoned the man's parents.
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They asked them, "Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How is it that now he can see?"
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His parents answered, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind;
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but how it is that he can see now, we don't know; nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him -- he's old enough, he can speak for himself!"
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The parents said this because they were afraid of the Judeans, for the Judeans had already agreed that anyone who acknowledged Yeshua as the Messiah would be banned from the synagogue.