Expository Thoughts
heard that any man opened the eyes of one who was born blind. 33. If this man were not of God, he could no nothing.
34. They answered and said to him, You were completely born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.
35. Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said to him, Do you believe in the Son of God? 36. He answered and said, Who is he Lord, that I might believe in him? 37. And Jesus said to him, You have both seen him and it is he who talks with you. 38. And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshiped him. 39. And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that those who do not see might see, and that those who see might be made blind. 40. And some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words, and said to him, Are we blind also?
41. Jesus said to them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin; but now ye say, We see. Therefore your sin remains.
26.—[Then they said... How did he open your eyes?] The enemies of our Lord renewed their examination of the healed man by inquiries into the manner in which our Lord had opened his eyes. Their previous inquiry had been directed to the point "Who did this miracle?" They now ask "How was it done?"
The folly of wicked men comes out remarkably in this renewed examination. Had they let the matter drop at this point, they would not have exposed their own malevolent and unreasoning spirit. They madly rush on headlong and are put to open shame by a poor and