John 9:7

wash in the pool Literally, wash into the pool, i.e. -wash off the clay into the pool," or, -go to the pool and wash." The washing was probably part of the means of healing (comp. Naaman) and was a strong test of the man's faith.

Siloam Satisfactorily identified with Birket Silwânin the lower Tyropoean valley, S. E. of the hill of Zion. This is probably the Siloah of Nehemiah 3:15 and the Shiloah of Isaiah 8:6. -The tower in Siloam" (Luke 13:4) was very possibly a building connected with the water; perhaps part of an aqueduct.

which is by interpretation Literally, which is interpreted.

Sent This is an admissible interpretation; but the original meaning is rather Sending, i.e. outlet of waters, -the waters of Shiloah that go softly" (Isaiah 8:6). S. John sees in the word - nomen et omen" of the man's cure. Perhaps he sees also that this water from the rock is an image of Him who was sentfrom the Father.

and came seeing -Came," not back to Christ, who had probably gone away meanwhile (John 9:12), but to his own home, as would appear from what follows. Has any poet ever attempted to describe this man's emotions on first seeing the world in which he had lived so long?

"The scene in which the man returns seeing and is questioned by his neighbours, is vividly described. So too is the whole of that which follows, when the Pharisees come upon the stage. We may accept it with little short of absolute credence. If the opponents of miracles could produce a single Jewish document, in which any event, known not to have happened, was described with so much minuteness and verisimilitude, then it would be easier to agree with them." S. pp. 162, 163.