Moffatt(i)
7 saying, "Go and wash them in the pool of Siloam" (Siloam meaning 'sent'). So off he went and washed them, and went home seeing.
8 Whereupon the neighbours and those to whom he had been a familiar sight as a beggar, said, "Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?"
9 Some said, "It is"; others said, "No, but it is like him." He said, "I am the man."
10 So they asked him, "How were your eyes opened?"
11 He replied, "The man they call Jesus made some clay and smeared my eyes with it and told me, 'Go and wash them in Siloam'; so I went and washed them, and I got my sight."
12 "Where is he?" they asked; he answered, "I do not know."
13 They brought him before the Pharisees, this man who had once been blind.
14 Now it was on the sabbath day that Jesus had made clay and opened his eyes.
15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had regained his sight, and he told them, "He smeared some clay on my eyes, and I washed them, and now I can see."
16 Then said some of the Pharisees, "This man is not from God, for he does not keep the sabbath"; others said, "How can a sinner perform such Signs?" They were divided on this.
17 So they asked the blind man once more, "What have you to say about him, for opening your eyes?" The man replied, "I say he is a prophet."
18 Now the Jews would not believe he had been born blind and had regained his sight, till they summoned the parents of the man who had regained his sight
19 and asked them, "Is this your son, the son you declare was born blind? How is it that he can see now?"
20 His parents answered, "This is our son, and he was born blind; we know that.
21 But how he can see to-day, we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask himself; he is of age, he can speak for himself."
22 (His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that anyone who confessed him to be Christ should be excommunicated.
23 That was why the man's parents said, "He is of age, ask himself.")
24 So the man born blind was summoned a second time, and told, "Now give God the praise; this man, we know quite well, is only a sinner."
25 To which he replied, "I do not know whether he is a sinner; one thing I do know, that once I was blind and now I can see."
26 "What did he do to you?" they repeated; "How did he open your eyes?"