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."
In the crowd was a woman who had been bleeding for twelve years. She had spent everything she had on doctors, but none of them could make her well.
Beside the pool was a man who had been sick for thirty-eight years.
"Then how can you see?" they asked.
The man's parents answered, "We are certain that he is our son, and we know that he was born blind.
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.
(SEE 9:22)
There he met a man named Aeneas, who for eight years had been sick in bed and could not move.