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Joh_9:40. Pharisees were no doubt in His company, whose object was to mark all the more carefully His further behaviour after the performance of the miracle, not apostate disciples of Jesus (Chrysostom, Euth. Zigabenus), or adherents of a Pharisaic spirit (Lange). See Joh_10:6; Joh_10:21. They imagine that, in conformity with the opinion which Jesus entertains regarding them, He must needs reckon them among the μὴ βλέποντες ; and they fail altogether to perceive that, according to the sense in which He used the expression,—which, however, they do not understand,
He must include them among the βλέποντες . That they, the wise men of the nation, should be μὴ βλέποντες or τυφλοί (comp. Mat_15:14), seems to them, in their conceit, so astonishing and singular, that they ask: But we also are surely not blind? The Pharisees did not understand Jesus to be speaking of physical blindness (Chrysostom, Theophylact, Euth. Zigabenus, and several others), because otherwise they would certainly not have put such a question.