Daily Discovery Bible Study

12 “Where is he?” they asked.

“I don't know,” he replied.

13 They took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.14 Now it was the Sabbath when Jesus had made the mud and opened the blind man's eyes.15 So the Pharisees also asked him how he could see. He told them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”

16 Some of the Pharisees said, “The man who did this can't be from God because he doesn't keep the Sabbath.” But others wondered, “How could a sinner do such miracles?” So they were divided in their opinion.

17 So they went on questioning the man. “What's your opinion about him, then, since it's your eyes he opened,” they asked.

“He's surely a prophet,” the man replied.

18 The Jewish leaders still refused to believe that the man who had been blind could now see until they had called in the man's parents.

19 They asked them, “Is this your son whom you say was born blind? So how is it that now he can see?”

20 His parents answered, “We know this is our son who was born blind.21 But we've no idea how he can see now, or who healed him. Why don't you ask him, he's old enough. He can speak for himself.”22 The reason his parents said this was because they were afraid of what the Jewish leaders would do. The Jewish leaders had already announced that anyone who declared that Jesus was the Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.23 That was why his parents said, “Ask him, he's old enough.”

24 Once more they called in the man who had been blind, and told him, “Give God the glory! We know this man is a sinner.”

25 The man replied, “Whether he's a sinner or not, I don't know. All I know is that I was blind and now I can see.”

26 Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”

27 The man replied, “I already told you. Weren't you listening? Why do you want to hear it again? You don't want to become his disciples too, do you?”

28 They shouted abuse at him, and said, “You're that man's disciple.29 We're disciples of Moses. We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this person, we don't even know where he comes from.”

30 The man answered, “That's incredible! You don't know where he comes from but he opened my eyes.31 We know that God doesn't listen to sinners, but he does listen to anyone who worships him and does what he wants.32 Never before in the whole of history has anyone heard of a man born blind being healed.33 If this man weren't from God, he could do nothing.”

34 “You were born totally sinful, and yet you're trying to lecture us,” they replied. And they threw him out of the synagogue.

John 9: 12-34