Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

A great number of sick, blind, lame, and paralyzed people were lying in these walkways.

Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see.

Others said, “These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?”

His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.

Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

So his parents replied, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

He replied, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing – that although I was blind, now I can see.”

Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”

Jesus replied, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.”

But some of them said, “This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”

Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.”

Jesus said,] “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”