And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
Foiled by the testimony of the young man himself, they hope to throw doubt on the fact by close questioning his parents, who, perceiving the snare laid for them, ingeniously escape it by testifying simply to the identity of their son, and his birth-blindness, leaving it to himself, as a competent witness, to speak to the cure.