“He answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: I was blind, and now I see.”
They asked, “What did he do to you? How did he make you see again?”
He answered, “I already told you, and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you want to become his followers, too?”
Then they insulted him and said, “You are his follower, but we are followers of Moses. We know that God spoke to Moses, but we don’t even know where this man comes from.” – John 9:25-28
“I was blind, and now I see.”
It doesn’t matter what ‘they’ say or who they claim to follow. They were only following a follower.
A first hand experience will always trump second hand information.