John 9:16-18

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¹⁶ “The man can’t be from God,” some of the Pharisees began to say. “He doesn’t keep the sabbath!”

“Well, but,” replied some of the others, “how can a man who is a sinner do signs like these?”

And they were divided.

¹⁷ So they spoke to the blind man again.

“What have you got to say about him?” they asked. “He opened your eyes, after all.”

“He’s a prophet,” he replied.

¹⁸ The Judaeans didn’t believe that he really had been blind and now could see. So they called the parents of the newly sighted man,