He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
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Gill's Exposition
He answered and said, a man that is called Jesus,.... Whom he had as yet little knowledge of, only by some means or another he had learned his name;
made clay and anointed mine eyes, &c. See Gill on…
Adam Clarke
A man that is called Jesus - The whole of this relation is simple and artless in the highest degree. The blind man had never seen Jesus, but he had heard of his name - he felt that he had put…
Such a wonderful event as the giving of sight to a man born blind could not but be the talk of the town, and many heeded it no more than they do other town-talk, that is but nine days' wonder; but…
Cambridge Bible
A man that is called Jesus This looks as if he had heard little of the fame of Jesus. But the better reading gives, -The man that is called Jesus," which points the other way.
made clay He does not…