1. The larger section of 8:12–10:42, of which this pericope is part, is unified and controlled by forensic patterns and themes of interrogation and judgment which structure the narrative presentation and give guidance to the interpretation of each pericope. Cf. Lincoln, Truth on Trial, 97; Dodd, Interpretation, 354–62.
2. The uniqueness of this pericope is not only its dialogical form but also its literary artistry, for which it has long been recognized. See Dodd, Interpretation, 357; Leithart, Deep Exegesis, 168; Larsen, Recognizing the Stranger, 151.
3. Staley, “Stumbling in the Dark,” 64.
4. See Parsenios, Rhetoric and Drama in the Johannine Lawsuit Motif, 1–47.
5. Schnackenburg, John, 2:240.
6. John Painter, “John 9 and the Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel,” JSNT 28 (1986): 31–61 (34). Cf. Barrett, John, 356; Brown, John, 1:371.
7. Staley, “Stumbling in the Dark,” 65.
8. Cf. Malina and Rohrbaugh, John, 169–70.
9. Nicole Kelley, “The Theological Significance of Physical Deformity in the Pseudo-Clementine Homilies,” PRSt 34 (2007): 77–90 (78).
10. David Rensberger, Johannine Faith and Liberating Community (Philadelphia: Westminster, 1988), 43–44.
11. See Brown, John, 1:371.
12. Ridderbos, John, 333.
13. Cf. Calvin, John 1–10, 239.
14. The text-critical evidence supports the cryptic nature of the statement. See Metzger, Textual Commentary, 194.
15. Bauckham, Jesus and the Eyewitnesses, 372.
16. Ibid. Bauckham admits that the Greek usage of “we” and “I” cannot be defined with precision. Cf. Moulton, Grammar, 1:86.
17. See Augustine, John, 44.6.247.
18. Schnackenburg, John, 2:242.
19. Carson, John, 363–64.
20. See Keener, John, 1:779–81.
21. Schlatter, Der Evangelist Johannes, 225.
22. Keener, John, 1:781.
23. Contra Bruce Grigsby, “Washing in the Pool of Siloam—A Thematic Anticipation of the Johannine Cross,” NovT 27 (1985): 227–35.
24. William M. Wright IV, Rhetoric and Theology: Figural Reading of John 9, BZNW 165 (Berlin: Walter de Gruyter, 2009), 165.
25. As described by Bultmann, John, 333.
26. Brown, John, 1:373. Barrett, John, 359, even warns against assuming it “was necessarily to John a religious formula.”
27. Morris, John, 548. On “impressions,” see Introduction.
28. See Leithart, Deep Exegesis, 165; cf. Augustine, John, 44.8.247.
29. Wright, Rhetoric and Theology, 169.
30. Cf. Morris, John, 550.
31. Contra Thatcher, “The Sabbath Trick,” 60, the purpose is to dramatically deflect the reader’s focus from the blind man to Jesus.
32. Cf. Wright, Rhetoric and Theology, 172.
33. Barrett, John, 360. Cf. Paul D. Duke, Irony in the Fourth Gospel (Atlanta: John Knox, 1985), 120.
34. Michaels, John, 552.
35. Keener, John, 1:787.
36. Michaels, John, 553.
37. Barrett, John, 361.
38. Morris, John, 433.
39. Cf. Staley, “Stumbling in the Dark,” 67.
40. See Leithart, Deep Exegesis, 161–71.
41. Martyn, History and Theology in the Fourth Gospel.
42. See Klink, The Sheep of the Fold, 127–47, for an analysis of 9:22.
43. See Edward W. Klink III, “Expulsion from the Synagogue: Rethinking a Johannine Anachronism,” TynBul 59 (2008): 99–118; idem, “The Over-Realized Expulsion in the Gospel of John,” in John, Jesus, and History: Vol. 2; Aspects of Historicity in John, ed. Paul N. Anderson, Felix Just, and Tom Thatcher; SBLSymS 44 (Atlanta: SBL Press, 2009), 175–84.
44. D. Neale, “Jesus was a Mesith? Public Response to Jesus and his Ministry,” TynBul 44 (1993): 89–101 (91).
45. Contra Cornelis Bennema, Encountering Jesus: Character Studies in the Gospel of John (Milton Keynes: Paternoster, 2010), 140.
46. Brown, John, 1:374.
47. Keener, John, 1:790.
48. Cf. Michaels, John, 559.
49. BDF § 452.2.
50. See Wallace, Greek Grammar, 458–59.
51. Cf. Morris, John, 437–38.
52. Michaels, John, 561.
53. Bultmann, John, 337.
54. Cf. Michaels, John, 563.
55. Cf. Painter, “John 9 and the Interpretation of the Fourth Gospel,” 39.
56. Michaels, John, 565.
57. See Francis J. Moloney, The Johannine Son of Man, 2nd ed.; BSR 14 (Rome: LAS, 1978), 149–59.
58. Cf. Bultmann, John, 338.
59. Cf. Leithart, Deep Exegesis, 164.
60. Michaels, John, 573.
61. See Wright, Rhetoric and Theology, 188.
62. Bultmann, John, 341.
63. J. Duncan M. Derrett, “John 9:6 read with Isaiah 6:10; 29:9,” EvQ 66 (1994): 251–54. Cf. J. M. Lieu, “Blindness in the Johannine Tradition,” NTS 34 (1988): 83–95.
64. Morris, John, 442.
65. Carson, John, 378.
66. Cf. Aquinas, John, 2:182.
67. Ridderbos, John, 351.