John 9:17

John 9:17

15 Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”

16 Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This Man is not from God, because He does not¹ keep the Sabbath.” Others said, ^a“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And ^bthere was a division among them.

17 They said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him because He opened your eyes?” He said, ^a“He is a prophet.”

18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight.

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;

Commentaries:

Robertson's Word Pictures (NT)

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Unto the blind man again (tw tuflw palin). The doctors disagree and they ask the patient whose story they had already heard (verse John 9:15).

In that he opened thine eyes (oti hnewcen sou touv ofqalmouv). Causal use of oti and triple augment in the first aorist active indicative of anoigw. They offer the excuse that the man's experience particularly qualified him to explain the "how," overlooking the fact he had already told his story and also trying to conceal their own hopeless division of opinion.

He is a prophet (profhthv estin). The man will go that far anyhow.

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