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Joh_9:22. ʼΉδη γὰρ συνετέθ .] for—so great cause had they for that fear—the Jews had already agreed, had already come to an understanding with each other; conspiraverant, Vulgate. Comp. Luk_22:5; Act_23:20; Thuc. 4. 19; 1Ma_9:70; Ast, Lex. Plat. III. p. 340. The context does not justify the assumption of a decree of the Sanhedrim to that effect. The hope, however, was cherished of being able without difficulty to convert the arrangement in question into a decree of the Sanhedrim; and the parents of the blind man might easily have come to know of this. We can easily understand that they should prefer exposing their son rather than themselves to this danger, since they must have been certain that he would not for the sake of his benefactor refuse to make the dangerous confession.
ἵνα ] that which they had agreed on is conceived as the intention of their agreement. Comp. ἀξιοῦν ἵνα in Dem. de Cor. 155 (see Dissen on the passage), and Nägelsbach on the Iliad, p. 62, ed. 3.
ἀποσυνάγ . γέν .] Exclusion from the fellowship of the synagogue, and in connection therewith from the common intercourse of life, was probably at this time the sole form of excommunication. See on Luk_6:22.