John 9:1

καὶ παράγων. Possibly on His way from the Temple (John 8:59), or (if ἐγένετο τότε be the right reading in John 10:22) more probably on a later occasion near the F. of the Dedication. Comp. καὶ παράγων εἶδε Λευΐν (Mark 2:14). We know that this man was a beggar (John 9:8), and that beggars frequented the gates of the Temple (Acts 3:2), as they frequent the doors of foreign churches now; but we are not told where this man was begging.

ἐκ γενετῆς. The phrase occurs nowhere else in N.T. Justin Martyr uses it twice of those healed by Christ; Trypho LXIX.; Apol. I. xxii. No source is so probable as this verse, for nowhere else is Christ said to have healed a congenital disease. see on John 1:23 and John 3:3. There is an indubitable reference to this passage in the Clementine Homilies (XIX. xxii.), the date of which is c. A.D. 150. see on John 10:9; John 10:27. For other instances of Christ giving sight to the blind see Matthew 9:27; Matthew 20:29; Mark 8:22.