John 9:21

John 9:21

19 And they asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

20 His parents answered them and said, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind;

21 but by what means he now sees we do not know, or who opened his eyes we do not know. He is of age; ask him. He will speak for himself.”

22 His parents said these things because ^athey feared the Jews, for the Jews had agreed already that if anyone confessed that He was Christ, he ^bwould be put out of the synagogue.

23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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But how he now seeth we know not (pwv de nun blepei ouk oidamen). Concerning the third question they profess ignorance both as to the "how" (pwv) and the "who" (tiv).

Opened (hnoicen). First aorist active indicative with single augment of anoigw, same form as hnewcen (triple augment) in verse John 9:17. They were not witnesses of the cure and had the story only from the son as the Pharisees had.

He is of age (hlikian exei). "He has maturity of age." He is an adult. A regular classical phrase in Plato, etc. The parents were wholly right and within their rights.

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