“Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?”
Then said they to him again, What did he do to thee? how opened he thine eyes? — the Pharisees return to the factual question: What did he do? How were your eyes opened? Their repeated interrogation suggests frustration: the man keeps referring to his sight, not to theological analysis of Jesus. They seek to extract either a confession or a recantation.
Church Fathers on John 9:26
The parents having referred the Pharisees to the healed man himself, they summon him a second time: Then again called they the man that was blind. They do not openly say now, Deny that Christ has healed you, but conceal their object under the presence of religion: Give God the praise, i.e. confess that this man has had nothing to do with the work.
Deny that you have received the benefit. This is not to give God the glory, but rather to blaspheme Him.
The man, that he might neither expose himself to calumny, nor at the same time conceal the truth, answers not that he knew Him to be righteous, but, Whether He is a sinner or no, I know not.
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