Joh 9:16-17 | RWP | e4.org | Because he keepeth not the sabbath ( οτ το σαββατον ου τηρε ). This is reason (causal οτ ) enough. He violates our rules about the Sabbath and therefore is a Sabbath-breaker as charged when here before ( , , ). Hence he is not "from God" ( παρα θεου ). So some. How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? ( Πως δυνατα ανθρωπος αμαρτωλος τοιαυτα σημεια ποιειν; ). This was the argument of Nicodemus, himself a Pharisee and one of the Sanhedrin, long ago ( ). It was a conundrum for the Pharisees. No wonder there was "a division" ( σχισμα , schism, split, from σχιζω ) as in ; .

‏ John 9:16-17

Because he keepeth not the sabbath ( οτ το σαββατον ου τηρε ). This is reason (causal οτ ) enough. He violates our rules about the Sabbath and therefore is a Sabbath-breaker as charged when here before (5:10, 16, 18). Hence he is not "from God" ( παρα θεου ). So some.

How can a man that is a sinner do such signs? ( Πως δυνατα ανθρωπος αμαρτωλος τοιαυτα σημεια ποιειν; ). This was the argument of Nicodemus, himself a Pharisee and one of the Sanhedrin, long ago (3:2). It was a conundrum for the Pharisees. No wonder there was "a division" ( σχισμα, schism, split, from σχιζω ) as in 7:43; 10:19.

Unto the blind man again ( τω τυφλω παλιν ). The doctors disagree and they ask the patient whose story they had already heard (verse 15).

In that he opened thine eyes ( οτ ηνεωιξεν σου τους οφθαλμους ). Causal use of οτ and triple augment in the first aorist active indicative of ανοιγω. 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 ( προφητης εστιν ). The man will go that far anyhow.