9:20a

His parents answered: Refer to the parents in a way that is natural in your language. For example:

The parents
-or-
The man’s parents

We know he is our son: This clause indicates that the parents admitted that the man was their son. There was no doubt about that. Here is another way to translate this clause:

We are certain that this is our son (Contemporary English Version)

9:20b

and we know he was born blind: The word and here introduces a second thing that the parents said that they knew. They knew and were willing to say that the man was born blind. In some languages it may be natural to repeat the verb we know from 9:20a.

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