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John 9:10
“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
Berean Standard Bible
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Study note
Setting — The neighbors and former acquaintances question the formerly blind man about his sudden healing. They press him directly on the mechanism of his restoration after he insists he is the same man they knew.
The words — The Greek πῶς (pōs) means "how," and ἠνεῴχθησὲν (ēneōchthēsan) translates to "were opened." The phrasing isolates the physical event of sight returning rather than naming its agent.
The thread — This focus on untraceable processes runs parallel to Ecclesiastes 11:5 noting human inability to track the wind or fetal formation, and mirrors the identical interrogative structure in John 3:9.
Why it lands — The verse requires a reader to accept a reported miracle without demanding a complete causal explanation. It places the burden of testimony on the witness rather than on the interrogators.
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The Greek words
King James Version
Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
Cross-references
- Ecclesiastes 11:5 As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
- Mark 4:27 Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
- John 3:9 “How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
- John 9:15 So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
- John 9:21 But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
- John 9:26 “What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?”
- 1 Corinthians 15:35 But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”