But we don’t know how he can now see. And we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him. He is an adult. He can speak for himself.”
A woman was there who had a sickness that made her bleed. Her sickness had lasted for 12 years. No one could heal her.
One person was there who had not been able to walk for 38 years.
“Then how were your eyes opened?” they asked.
“We know he is our son,” the parents answered. “And we know he was born blind.
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders. The leaders had already made this decision about Jesus. Anyone who said Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
That was why the man’s parents said, “He is an adult. Ask him.”
There he found a disabled man named Aeneas. For eight years the man had spent most of his time in bed.