But we don’t know how he got his sight or who gave it to him. You’ll have to ask him. He’s old enough to answer for himself.”
A woman who had been suffering from chronic bleeding for twelve years was in the crowd. No one could cure her.
One man, who had been sick for 38 years, was lying there.
So they asked him, “How did you receive your sight?”
His parents replied, “We know that he’s our son and that he was born blind.
(His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. The Jews had already agreed to put anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Christ out of the synagogue.
That’s why his parents said, “You’ll have to ask him. He’s old enough.”)
In Lydda Peter found a man named Aeneas who was paralyzed and confined to a cot for eight years.