John 9:20-41 ▼

20 His father & mother aunswered them, and sayde: We knowe that this is our sonne, and that he was borne blynde:

21 But by what meanes he now seeth, we can not tell: Or who hath opened his eyes, can not we tell. He is olde inough, aske him, let him aunswere for himselfe.

22 Such wordes spake his father & mother, because they feared the Iewes: For the Iewes had decreed alredy, that yf any man dyd confesse that he was Christe, he shoulde be excommunicate out of the synagogue.

23 Therfore sayde his father & mother: he is olde inough, aske hym.

24 Then agayne called they the man that was blynde, and sayde vnto hym: Geue God the prayse, we knowe that this man is a sinner.

25 He aunswered, and sayde: Whether he be a sinner or no, I can not tell: One thyng I am sure of, that wheras I was blynde, nowe I see.

26 Then sayde they to hym agayne: What dyd he to thee? Howe opened he thyne eyes?

27 He aunswered them: I tolde you yer whyle, and ye dyd not heare. Wherfore woulde ye heare it agayne? Wyll ye also be his disciples?

28 Then rayted they hym, and sayde, Be thou his disciple: We are Moyses disciples.

29 We are sure, that God spake vnto Moyses: As for this felowe, we knowe not from whence he is.

30 The man aunswered, and sayde vnto them: this is a marueylous thyng, that ye wote not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened myne eyes.

31 For we be sure, that God heareth not sinners: But yf any man be a worshipper of God, and obedient vnto his wyll, hym heareth he.

32 Sence the worlde began, was it not hearde, that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blynde.

33 If this man were not of God, he coulde haue done nothyng.

34 They aunswered, & sayde vnto hym: Thou art altogether borne in sinne, and doest thou teache vs? And they cast hym out.

35 Iesus hearde that they had excommunicate hym, & when he had founde hym, he sayde vnto hym: Doest thou beleue on the sonne of God?

36 He aunswered and sayde: Who is he Lorde, that I myght beleue on hym?

37 And Iesus sayde vnto hym: Thou hast both seene hym, and it is he that talketh with thee.

38 And he sayde, Lorde, I beleue: And he worshipped hym.

39 And Iesus sayde vnto hym: I am come vnto iudgement into this worlde, that they which see not, myght see: and that they which see, myght be made blynde.

40 And some of the pharisees which were with hym, hearde these wordes, & sayde vnto hym: Are we blynde also?

41 Iesus sayde vnto them, Yf ye were blynde, ye shoulde haue no sinne: But nowe ye say, we see, therfore your sinne remayneth.