John 9:16
Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them.
The verse comes after Jesus healed the man born blind on the Sabbath, and it records how that healing divided the Pharisees. One party concluded He was not from God because He had broken the Sabbath by healing on that day, while the other asked how a man who was a sinner could do such miracles. Prejudice and jealousy kept the accusers from accepting the healing as evidence of His divine mission. Their zeal for Sabbath observance stood exposed against their own plans to murder Him. Yet the miracle led many to recognize that He was more than an ordinary man.
The division over the miracle reflected the wider dispute over whether Jesus was from God, and the people's recognition of His works sustained their favor toward Him. The Pharisees despised the man Christ had healed, even though his healing revealed compassionate shepherd-care, and their self-righteous contempt stood against God's desire to save him. At that time the healed man did not yet know who had healed him, but Jesus afterward revealed Himself to him as the Son of God and the man worshiped Him. That healing shows Jesus' tender sympathy for human suffering, extended even to one who did not yet know Him.