They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out — the authorities respond with condemnation: 'Thou wast altogether born in sins'—they apply the discourse from 9:2 back to the man himself, dismissing him as a sinner (conflating physical disability with moral failing). 'Dost thou teach us?' expresses outrage: this social outcast presumes to instruct the official interpreters of the law. 'They cast him out' (exebalon auton, threw him out)—they excommunicate him, the very threat mentioned in 9:22. The man's growing faith and witnessing result in expulsion from the community.

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