But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.
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Gill's Exposition
But the Jews did not believe concerning him,.... Not Jesus, but the blind man;
that he had been blind, and received his sight; they imagine there was a fraud in the case, that it was collusion…
Is this your son? ... - The Pharisees proposed three questions to the parents, by which they hoped to convict the man of falsehood: Whether he was their son? Whether they would affirm that he was born…
Adam Clarke
But the Jews did not believe - All the subterfuge they could use was simply to sin against their conscience, by asserting that the man had not been blind; but out of this subterfuge they were soon…
One would have expected that such a miracle as Christ wrought upon the blind man would have settled his reputation, and silenced and shamed all opposition, but it had the contrary effect; instead of…
Cambridge Bible
But the Jews did not believe Better, the Jews, therefore, did not believe. The man having pronounced for the moderates, the bigoted and hostile party begin to question the factof the miracle. Note…
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