24So for a second time they summoned the man who had been blind. They told him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
25He answered, “I do not know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.”
26Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
27He answered, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples too, do you?”
28They ridiculed him and said, “You are his disciple, but we are disciples of Moses. 29We know that God has spoken to Moses. But this man—we do not know where he comes from.”
30“That's amazing!” the man answered. “You do not know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. 31We know that God does not listen to sinners. But he does listen to anyone who worships God and does his will. 32From the beginning of time, no one has ever heard of anyone opening the eyes of someone born blind. 33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
34They answered him, “You were entirely born in sinfulness! Yet you presume to teach us?” And they threw him out.
35Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. When he found him, he asked, “Do you believe in the Son of God?”[] 36“Who is he, sir,” the man replied, “that I may believe in him?”
37Jesus answered, “You have seen him, and he is the very one who is speaking with you.”
38Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” and he knelt down and worshipped him.
39Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, in order that those who do not see will see, and those who do see will become blind.”
40Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked, “We are not blind too, are we?”
41Jesus told them, “If you were blind, you would not hold on to sin. But now that you say, ‘We see,’ your sin remains.”
