But the Jewish leaders did not believe the story about him, that he had been blind and had gained his sight, until they had called the parents of the man who had gained his sight. They asked them: ‘Is this man your son, the one you say was born blind? So how does he see now?’
His parents answered: ‘We know that this man is our son and that he was born blind. How it is that he sees now, we do not know, or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him, he is of age, he will speak for himself.’
His parents said these things because they feared the Jewish leaders. For already the Jewish leaders had decided among themselves that anyone who confessed him as Messiah would be excluded from the synagogue. For this reason his parents said ‘He is of age; ask him. ‘
Lord, you have given me so much,
I ask for one more thing –
a grateful heart.
George Herbert