John 9:10

10 So they began to say to him, "How were your eyes opened?"

John 9:10 Meaning and Commentary

John 9:10

Therefore said they unto him
When the case was clear, and it was out of question that he was the man:

how were thine eyes opened?
or made to see: they might well ask this question, since such a thing was never known before, that one born blind received his sight; and as great a miracle it is in grace, and as great a mystery to a natural man, how one should be born again, or be spiritually enlightened.

John 9:10 In-Context

8 Then the neighbors and those who saw him previously (because he was a beggar) began to say, "Is this man not the one who used to sit and beg?"

9 Others were saying, "It is this man"; others were saying, "No, but he is like him." That one was saying, "I am [he]!"

10 So they began to say to him, "How were your eyes opened?"

11 He replied, "The man who is called Jesus made clay and smeared [it] on my eyes and said to me, 'Go to Siloam and wash!' So I went, and I washed, [and] I received sight."

12 And they said to him, "Where is that man?" He said, "I do not know."

Footnotes

• [a] *The imperfect tense has been translated as ingressive here ("began to say")
• [b] Some manuscripts have "Then how"