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We know that God spoke to Moses; but as for this fellow we do not know where he comes from."
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"Why, this is marvellous!" the man replied; "you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has opened my eyes!
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We know that God does not listen to bad people, but that if any one is a God-fearing man and obeys Him, to him He listens.
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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.
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Had that man not come from God, he could have done nothing."
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"You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin, and do *you* teach *us*?" And they put him out of the synagogue.
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Jesus heard that they had done this. So having found him, He asked him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"
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"Who is He, Sir?" replied the man. "Tell me, so that I may believe in Him."
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"You have seen Him," said Jesus; "and not only so: He is now speaking to you."
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"I believe, Sir," he said. And he threw himself at His feet.
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"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."