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For judgment (eis krima). The Father had sent the Son for this purpose (Joh 3:17). This world (kosmos) is not the home of Jesus. The krima (judgment), a word nowhere else in John, is the result of the krisis (sifting) from krinō, to separate. The Father has turned over this process of sifting (krisis) to the Son (Joh 5:22). He is engaged in that very work by this miracle.
They which see not (hoi mē blepontes). The spiritually blind as well as the physically blind (Luk 4:18; Isa 42:18). Purpose clause with hina and present active subjunctive blepōsin (may keep on seeing). This man now sees physically and spiritually.
And that they which see may become blind (kai hoi blepontes tuphloi genōntai). Another part of God’s purpose, seen in Mat 11:25; Luk 10:21, is the curse on those who blaspheme and reject the Son. Note ingressive aorist middle subjunctive of ginomai and predicate nominative. Hoi blepontes are those who profess to see like these Pharisees, but are really blind. Blind guides they were (Mat 23:16). Complacent satisfaction with their dim light.