John 9:28-34 Then they hurled insults at him and said, "You are this fellow's disciple! We are disciples of Moses! We know that God spoke to Moses, but as for this fellow, we don't even know where he comes from." The man answered, "Now that is remarkable! You don't know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes. We know that God does not listen to sinners. He listens to the godly man who does his will. Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, he could do nothing." To this they replied, "You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!" And they threw him out. (NIV)
Giving sight to a man, who had been born blind, was no ordinary event. Yet the religious leaders refused to accept that Jesus' miracles were a sign of the presence of God. They hated Jesus because He exposed them as shallow, power-hungry and self-glorifying. So they interrogated the healed man and his parents, trying to find any reason to discredit Jesus. Eventually, after they had asked many questions, the man provocatively asked if they also wanted to be disciples of Jesus.
