But we don’t know how he can see now, and we don’t know who restored his sight. Ask him. He’s an adult, and he can speak for himself.”
“We know he’s our son,” the parents answered, “and we know he was born blind.
His parents said that because they were afraid of the Jewish leaders, who had already decided that anyone who said Jesus was the Messiah would be put out of the synagogue.
That was why the man’s parents said, “He’s an adult; ask him.”
Among them was a woman who had a sickness that made her bleed. It had lasted for 12 years and no one had been able to heal her.
One man was there who hadn’t been able to walk for 38 years.
“Then how come you can see now?” they asked.
There he found a man named Aeneas who was paralyzed. He had spent the last eight years in bed.