How did Jesus respond to the parents of a blind son?

       The mother of the blind son (John 9:2, 3, 18, 20, 22, 23) figures in the story of Jesus' healing of her son. She testified to doubting Jews that her son was blind from birth. She does not appear alone, but always with her husband in the phrases "his parents" or "the parents."
       When Jesus' disciples asked, "Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?" (John 9:2), they assumed a current idea of that period that every calamity is due to some sin. Jesus replied with one of his positive statements; "Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."
       Then Jesus spat on the ground and made a paste of dust and spittle and put it on the son's eyes. One commentator suggests that this symbolized the creative act of Genesis 2:7. After Jesus had sealed
the man's eyes he sent him to the pool of Siloam to wash away the clay.
       After the man had received his sight, his parents were summoned before the Pharisees to testify that their son had been born blind and to explain how he had been healed. The parents declared that the man was their son, that he had been born blind, and that now he could see. More than this they would not say, for they feared displeasing the Pharisees and being put out of the synagogue. They said to the Jews: "He is of age; ask him" (John 9:23), meaning "Ask our son."