Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.
The saying belongs to the questioning that followed Jesus' healing of the man born blind, after onlookers saw his transformation. When asked how his eyes were opened, he explained that a man called Jesus made clay and anointed his eyes and sent him to wash in the pool of Siloam, and he washed and received sight. When then asked where Jesus was, he answered that he did not know, for he did not yet know who had healed him. The healing and the questioning around it were wonderful evidence of the truth and divine character of Jesus' mission.
The healing shows Jesus' compassionate and tender sympathy for human suffering, extended even to one who did not yet know Him in order to seek and save him. The restoration made the man an object of Pharisaic contempt. Later Jesus revealed Himself to the man as the Son of God, and the man worshiped Him.
The saying belongs to the questioning that followed Jesus' healing of the man born blind, after onlookers saw his transformation. When asked how his eyes were opened, he explained that a man called Jesus made clay and anointed his eyes and sent him to wash in the pool of Siloam, and he washed and received sight. When then asked where Jesus was, he answered that he did not know, for he did not yet know who had healed him. The healing and the questioning around it were wonderful evidence of the truth and divine character of Jesus' mission.
The healing shows Jesus' compassionate and tender sympathy for human suffering, extended even to one who did not yet know Him in order to seek and save him. The restoration made the man an object of Pharisaic contempt. Later Jesus revealed Himself to the man as the Son of God, and the man worshiped Him.