“"Some of them that followed Him, say unto Him, Are we also blind?" As in another place they said, "We were never servants to any man"; and, "We be not born of fornication" (c. viii. 33, 41); so now they gape on material things alone, and are ashamed of this kind of blindness.”
John Chrysostom, 5th c. — Homily on the Gospel of John 59
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40And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
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38And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him.
39And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
— John 9:40 —
41Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.