A   And as Iesus passed by / he sawe a man which was blynde from his birth. And his disciples axed him sayinge. Master / who dyd synne: this man or his father ∧ mother / that he was borne blynde? Iesus answered: Nether hath this man synned / nor yet his father and mother: but that the workes of God shuld be shewed on him. I must worke the workes of him that sent me / whyll it is daye. The ^note nyght cometh when no man can worke. As longe as I am in the worlde / I am the lyght of the worlde.

Assone as he had thus spoken / he spate on the grounde ∧ made claye of the spetle / B   ∧ rubbed the claye on the eyes of the blynde / ∧ sayde vnto him: ^note Goo wesshe the in þe; pole of Syloe / which by interpretacion / signifieth sent. He went his waye and wasshed / ∧ cam agayne

seinge. The neghboures and they that had sene him before how that he was a begger / sayde: is not this he that sate ∧ begged? Some sayde: this is he. Other sayd: he is lyke him. But he him selfe sayde: I am even he. They sayde vnto him: How are thyne eyes opened then? He answered ∧ sayde. The m&abar; that is called Iesus / made claye / and anoynted myne eyes / and sayd vnto me: Goo to the pole Syloe and wesshe. I went and wesshed ∧ receaved my syght. They sayde vnto him: where is he? He sayde: I cannot tell.

C   Then brought they to þe; pharises / him that a lytell before was blynde: for it was the Saboth daye when Iesus made the claye ∧ opened his eyes. Then agayne the pharises also axed him how he had receaved his syght. He sayde vnto th&ebar;: ^note He put claye apon myne eyes and I wasshed / ∧ do se. Then sayde some of the pharises: this man is not of God / because he kepeth not the saboth daye. Other sayde: how can a man þt; is a synner / do suche myracles? And ther was stryfe amonge th&ebar;. Then spake they vnto the blynde agayne: What sayst thou of him / because he hath openned thyne eyes? And he sayd: He is a Prophet.

D   But the Iewes dyd not beleve of the felowe / how that he was blynde ∧ receaved his syght / vntyll they had called the father and mother of him that had receaved his syght. And they axed th&ebar; saying: Is this youre sonne / whome ye saye was borne blynde? How doth he now se then? His father ∧ mother answered

them ∧ sayde: we wote well that this is oure sonne / and that he was borne blynde: but by what meanes he now seith / that can we not tell / or who hath opened his eyes / can we not tell. He is olde ynough / axe him / let him answer for him selfe. E   Suche wordes spake his father and mother / because they feared the Iewes. For the Iewes had conspyred all redy that yf eny man dyd confesse that he was Christ / he shuld be excommunicat out of the synagoge. Therefore sayde his father and mother: he is olde ynough / axe him.

Then agayne called they the man that was blynde / and sayd vnto him: Geve God the prayse: we knowe that this man is a synner. He answered and sayde: Whyther he be a synner or noo / I cannot tell: One thinge I am sure of / that I was blynde / ∧ now I se. Then sayde they to him agayne. What dyd he to the? How opened he thyne eyes? He answered them / I tolde you yerwhyle / and ye dyd not heare. Wherfore wolde ye heare it agayne? Will ye also be his disciples? Then rated they him / and sayde: Thou arte his disciple. We be Moses disciples. We are sure that God spake with Moses. This felowe we knowe not from whence he is.

F   The man answered and sayde vnto them: this is a merveleous thinge that ye wote not whence he is / seinge he hath opened myne eyes. For we be sure that God heareth not synners. But yf eny man be a worshipper of God ∧ do his will / him heareth he. Sence þe;

worlde beganne was it not hearde þt; eny man opened the eyes of one that was borne blynd. If this man were not of God / he coulde have done no thinge. They answered and sayd vnto him: thou arte altogeder borne in synne: ∧ dost thou teache vs? And they cast him out.

Iesus hearde that they had excommunicate him: and assone as he had founde him / he sayd vnto him: doest thou beleve on the sonne of God? He answered and sayde: Who is it Lorde / that I myght beleve on him? And Iesus sayde vnto him: Thou hast sene him / ∧ he it is that talketh with the. And he sayde: Lorde I beleve: ∧ worshipped him. &cross3; Iesus sayde: I am come vnto iudgement into this worlde: that they which se not / myght se / and they which se / myght be made blynde. And some of the pharises which were with him / hearde these wordes ∧ sayde vnto him: are we then blynde? Iesus sayde vnto them: yf ye were blynde / ye shuld have no synne. But now ye saye / we se / therfore youre synne remayneth.

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