22 Thus answered his parents, because they feared the Jews; for the Jews have already conspired that whoever acknowledges Him to be Christ should be excommunicated from the synagogue.

23 Wherefore his parents said, 'He is of perfect years; Ask yourself.

24 So they called a man a second time, who was blind, and said to him, 'Give glory to God; we know that That Man is a sinner.

25 And he answered and said unto them, 'Whether he is a sinner, I do not know; One thing I know is that I was blind, and now I see.

26 And they asked him again, 'What has he done to you?' How did He open Thy eyes?

27 And he answered them, 'I have already told you, and you have not heard; What else do you want to hear? or do you also want to become His disciples?

28 And they rebuked him, and said, 'You are his disciple, and we are the disciples of Moses.'

29 We know that God spoke to Moses; But we do not know whence He comes.

30 And the man who *regained his sight* answered and said to them, 'This is not surprising, that you do not know where he comes from, but he has opened my eyes.'

31 But we know that God does not listen to sinners; but whoever honors God and does His will listens to him.

32 From eternity it has not been heard that a man opened the eyes of a man born blind.

33 If He were not of God, He could not do nothing.

34 And they answered and said unto him, Thou art all born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they threw him out.

35 When Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and found him, he said to him, "Do you believe in the Son of God?"

36 And he answered, and said, 'Who is he, Lord, that I should believe in him?'

37 Jesus said to him, "And you have seen him, and he is speaking to you."

38 And he said, 'I believe, O Lord! And he worshipped Him.

39 And Jesus said, 'I have come into this world for judgment, that those who do not see may see, and those who see may become blind.'

40 And when some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this, they said to him, 'Are we also blind?'

41 Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would not have sin; but as you say that you see, the sin remains upon you.

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