11. He answered, “The Man who is called Yeshua made mud, rubbed it on my eyes, and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went away and washed, and then I received my sight!”
12. “Where is He?” they asked him. “I don’t know,” he said.
13. They bring to the Pharisees the man who once was blind.
14. Now the day was Shabbat when Yeshua made the mud and opened the man’s eyes.
15. So again the Pharisees were asking him how he received his sight. He responded, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see!”
16. So some of the Pharisees began saying, “This man isn’t from God, because He doesn’t keep Shabbat!” But others were saying, “How can a sinner perform such signs?” So there was a split among them.
17. Again they say to the blind man, “What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?” And he said, “He’s a prophet.”
18. So the Judean leaders didn’t believe that he had been blind and received his sight until they called his parents.
19. They questioned them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he see now?”
20. Then his parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.
21. We don’t know how he now sees, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him—he’s old enough. He will speak for himself.”
22. His parents said this because they were afraid of the Judean leaders. For the Judean leaders had already agreed that anyone who professed Yeshua to be Messiah would be thrown out of the synagogue.
23. That’s why his parents said, “He’s old enough—ask him.”