 Before this time, the Jewish leaders agreed to punish anyone that followed Jesus. They said, If anybody says that Jesus is the Christ, the special man that God promised to send, we will not let them come to our meeting houses and pray to God with us. So the mans parents were frightened, and they said, We know he is our son, and we know that he was born blind. But we dont know how his eyes are better, or who made them better. You can ask him. He is old enough to talk for himself. He is not a little boy. 