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 brought before  the  Pharisees,  and  they  asked  him  how  he  had received his  sight. Then the  man  told  them  how  it  had  happened. Then they  asked  him  again:  “What  sayest  thou  of  Him  that  hath opened thy  eyes?”  The  man  replied:  “He  is  a prophet.”

But they,  still  unbelieving,  and  not  satisfied  with  the  man’s own testimony,  called  his  parents,  and  asked  them: “Is  this  your son who  you  say  was  born  blind? How, then,  doth  he  now  see?” The parents  replied: “We  know  that  this  is  our  son,  and  that  he was  born  blind. But how  he  now  seeth  we  know  not. Ask himself; he  is  of  age,  let  him  speak  for  himself.”  The  parents  said this, because  they  were  afraid  of  the  Jews,  who  had  already  agreed among themselves  that  if  any  man  should  confess  Jesus  to  be  the Christ he  should  be  put  of  the  synagogue.

Then the  Pharisees  called  again  the  man  who  had  been  blind, and said  to  him:  “Give  glory  to  God. We know  that  this  man is a sinner.”  But  he  replied:  “Whether  He  be  a sinner  or  not, I know not. One thing  I know,  that,  whereas  I was  blind,  now I see.” Then  they  inquired  again:  “What  did  He  do  to  thee? How did  He  open  thy  eyes?”  The  man  answered:  “I  have  told you already,  and  you  have  not  heard. Why would  you  hear  it again? Will you  also  become  His  disciples?”

Then they  reviled  him,  saying:  “Be  thou  His  disciple,  but  we are  the  disciples  of  Moses. We know  that  God  spoke  to  Moses. But as  to  this  man  we  know  not  whence  He  is.”  The  man