16. So some of the Pharisees were saying, “This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath!” Others were saying, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?” And there was a division among them.
17. So they said to the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” And he said, “He is a prophet.”
18. So the Jews did not believe concerning him that he had been blind and received sight, until they summoned the parents of the one who received sight.
19. And they asked them, saying, “Is this man your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”
20. So his parents answered and said, “We know that this man is our son, and that he was born blind.
21. But how he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask him! He is a mature adult; he will speak for himself!”
22. (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jews, for the Jews had already decided that if anyone should confess him to be Christ, he would be expelled from the synagogue.
23. Because of this his parents said, “He is a mature adult; ask him.”)
24. So they summoned the man who had been blind for the second time and said to him, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner!”
25. Then that man replied, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I know—that although I was blind, now I see!”
26. So they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27. He replied to them, “I told you already and you did not listen! Why do you want to hear it again? You do not want to become his disciples also, do you?”
28. They reviled him and said, “You are his disciple! But we are disciples of Moses!
29. We know that God has spoken to Moses, but we do not know where this man is from.”