Joh_9:18. Observe that the mere verb is not again employed, nor even
οἱ
Φαρισαῖοι
, but
οἱ
Ἰουδαῖοι
, i.e. the hostile hierarchical party among the assembled Pharisees, which now carries on further proceedings. Comp. Joh_9:22.
οὐκ
ἐπίστ
. placed emphatically at the beginning of the verse.
οὖν
as the healed man had declared Him to be a prophet. They now suspected the existence of a fraudulent understanding between the two.
ἕως
ὅτου
] till they called, etc. Then first, after these had come and made their declaration, were they unable any longer to call the cure in question (Joh_9:26; Joh_9:34).
αὐτοῦ
τοῦ
ἀναβλέψ
.] of him who had himself again become seeing, concerning whom his own parents must surely know best.