8. The man's neighbours and the people who had seen him begging wondered if he really could be the same man.
9. Some of them said he was the same beggar, while others said he only looked like him. But he told them, “I am that man.”
10. “Then how can you see?” they asked.
11. He answered, “Someone named Jesus made some mud and smeared it on my eyes. He told me to go and wash it off in Siloam Pool. When I did, I could see.”
12. “Where is he now?” they asked.“I don't know,” he answered.
13-14. The day when Jesus made the mud and healed the man was a Sabbath. So the people took the man to the Pharisees.
15. They asked him how he was able to see, and he answered, “Jesus made some mud and smeared it on my eyes. Then after I washed it off, I could see.”
16. Some of the Pharisees said, “This man Jesus doesn't come from God. If he did, he would not break the law of the Sabbath.”Others asked, “How could someone who is a sinner perform such a miracle?”Since the Pharisees could not agree among themselves,
17. they asked the man, “What do you say about this one who healed your eyes?”“He is a prophet!” the man told them.
18. But the Jewish leaders would not believe that the man had once been blind. They sent for his parents
19. and asked them, “Is this the son that you said was born blind? How can he now see?”
20. The man's parents answered, “We are certain that he is our son, and we know that he was born blind.
21. But we don't know how he got his sight or who gave it to him. Ask him! He is old enough to speak for himself.”
22-23. The man's parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. The leaders had already agreed that no one was to have anything to do with anyone who said Jesus was the Messiah.