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They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.

And it was the Sabbath day when Iesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

Then againe the Pharisees also asked him how he had receiued his sight. He said vnto them, Hee put clay vpon mine eyes, and I washed, and doe see.

Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because hee keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner, doe such miracles? and there was a diuision among them.

They say vnto the blind man againe, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, Hee is a Prophet.

But the Iewes did not beleeue concerning him, that hee had bin blind, and receiued his sight, vntill they called the parents of him that had receiued his sight.

And they asked them, saying, Is this your sonne, who ye say was borne blind? how then doth he now see?

His parents answered them, and said, We know that this is our sonne, and that he was borne blind:

But by what meanes he now seeth, we know not, or who hath opened his eyes we know not: hee is of age, aske him, he shall speake for himselfe.

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Iewes: for the Iewes had agreed already, that if any man did confesse that he was Christ, he should be put out of the Synagogue.

Therefore said his parents, He is of age, aske him.

Then againe called they the man that was blind, and said vnto him, Giue God the praise, we know that this man is a sinner.

He answered, and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: One thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see.

Then saide they to him againe, What did he to thee? How opened hee thine eyes?

He answered them, I haue told you already, and ye did not heare: wherfore would you heare it againe? Will ye also be his disciples?

Then they reuiled him, and said, Thou art his disciple, but we are Moses disciples.

Wee know that God spake vnto Moses: as for this fellow, we knowe not from whence he is.

The man answered, and said vnto them, Why herein is a marueilous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.

Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man bee a worshipper of God, and doth his will, him he heareth.

Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blinde:

If this man were not of God, he could doe nothing.

They answered, and saide vnto him, Thou wast altogether borne in sinnes, and doest thou teach vs? And they cast him out.