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Joh_9:13 f. Ἄγουσιν ] These belong still to the persons designated in Joh_9:8. They act thus because the healing had taken place on the Sabbath (Joh_9:14), the violation of which they, in their servile dependence, believed it to be their duty not to conceal from the guardians of the law who ruled over the people. It does not, however, follow, from the fact that there were no sittings of the courts on the Sabbath, that the man was not brought on the day of the healing (so Lücke and several others suppose), but that by πρὸς τοὺς Φαρισ . is meant neither the Sanhedrim (Tholuck, Baeumlein), nor a synagogal court (Lücke, Lange),[49] of which, moreover, the text contains no notice (comp. Joh_7:45, Joh_11:47). Especially must it be remembered that in John the Sanhedrim is never simply designated οἱ Φαρισαῖοι (not even Joh_7:47), but always οἱ ἀρχιερεῖς κ . οἱ Φαρισ ., or (Joh_7:32) in the reverse order. The Pharisees as a corporate body are meant, and a number of them might easily have come together at one of their houses to form a kind of sitting.
τὸν ποτὲ τυφλ .] A more precise definition of αὐτόν ; see Buttmann, Neut. Gr. p. 342 [E. T. p. 400].
Joh_9:14 assigns the reason why they bring him.
τὸν πηλόν ] the clay in question.
[49] Of such subordinate courts with twenty-three members there were two in Jerusalem. See Saalschütz, Mos. R. p. 601.