13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who was formerlyblind.
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1Now it was a Sabbath on the daywhenJesusmade the clay and opened his eyes.
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2Then the Phariseesalso were asking him againhow he received his sight. And he said to them, "He appliedclay to my eyes, and I washed, and I see."
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Thereforesome of the Pharisees were saying, "Thisman is not from God, because He 3does not keep the Sabbath." But others were saying, "Howcan a man who is a sinnerperformsuch4signs?" And 5there was a divisionamong them.
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So they said to the blindman6again, "What do you sayabout Him, since He opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a 7prophet."
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8The Jewsthen did not believe it of him, that he had beenblind and had receivedsight, until they called the parents of the veryone who had received his sight,
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and questioned them, saying, "Is this your son, who you say was bornblind? Thenhow does he nowsee?"
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His parentsanswered them and said, "We know that this is our son, and that he was bornblind;
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but how he nowsees, we do not know; orwhoopened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him; he is of age, he will speak for himself."
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His parentssaidthisbecause they 9were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews10had alreadyagreed that ifanyoneconfessed Him to be Christ, 11he was to be put out of the synagogue.
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For thisreason his parentssaid, "12He is of age; ask him."
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So a secondtime they called the manwho had beenblind, and said to him, "13Giveglory to God; we know that 14thisman is a sinner."
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He thenanswered, "Whether He is a sinner, I do not know; onething I do know, that though I was blind, now I see."
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So they said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?"
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He answered them, "15I told you already and you did not 16listen; why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become His disciplestoo, do you?"
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They reviled him and said, "You are His disciple, but 17we are disciples of Moses.
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"We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for thisman, 18we do not knowwhere He is from."
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The mananswered and said to them, "Well, here* is an amazingthing, that you do not knowwhere He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.
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"We know that 19God does not hearsinners; but ifanyone is God-fearing and does His will, He hears him.
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"Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyoneopened the eyes of a personbornblind.
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"20Ifthisman were not from God, He coulddonothing*."
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They answered him, "21You were bornentirely in sins, and are you teaching us?" So they 22put him out.