But how he can see now, or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. Ask him. He is of age; he will speak for himself.”
And a woman was there who had been subject to bleeding for twelve years, but no one could heal her.
One who was there had been an invalid for thirty-eight years.
“How then 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, who already had decided that anyone who acknowledged that Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
That was why his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
There he found a man named Aeneas, who was paralyzed and had been bedridden for eight years.