10Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
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And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.
But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?
Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.
Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 8-12)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 here we are told what the neighbours said of it, for the confirmation of the matter of fact. That which at first was not believed without scrutiny may afterwards be admitted without scruple . Two things…
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