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Session 4: Giving of Living Water, God’s Eternal Son, Light of the Wor ld 101

2. Anointed the man’s eyes with the mud, 9.6b

3. Ordered the man to wash in the pool of Siloam (sent), 9.7a (used as a water supply and for baptizing converts for Judaism; the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles, perhaps used as sacred water for the feast)

4. He went, washed, and came back seeing, 9.7b

E. The neighbors’ reaction, 9.8-12

1. Many find it hard to believe that this is the same man, 9.8-10.

2. He recounts how his eyes were opened, 9.11-12.

IX. The Pharisees’ Official Investigation into the Blind Man’s Healing, John 9.13-34

A. Round One of the official investigation, 9.13-23

1. Background info: the man was brought to the Pharisees, and it was the Sabbath day when he was healed, 9.13-14.

2. The Pharisees’ inquiry: How did you receive your sight?, 9.15a.

a. Mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see – concise and clear, 9.15