=24, 25.= The Pharisees attempt to overawe the blind man. The conference with his parents has been held in his absence. They then summon him into their presence with the declaration that they have discovered the imposture, and call on him to confess it.--=Give God the praise= is not equivalent to _Give to God the glory of your cure_; they do not admit that any cure has been wrought. It is a solemn form of adjuration to confess the fraud which they pretend to have discovered (Josh. 7:19).--=We know that this man is a sinner=, indicates that their investigation has discovered the imposture. The man’s reply is shrewd and wise. He will not undertake to dispute the conclusion which these doctors of the law pretend to have reached; but neither will he abate in the slightest his testimony to the miraculous cure.--=One thing I know, that being blind, now I see.= No testimony to Christ is more pertinent or potent than this personal experience of his grace. Comp. Gal. 1:23; 1 Tim. 1:12-18. 26 Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? 27 He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear _it_ again? will ye also be his disciples? =26, 27.= Defeated in an attempt to overawe the blind man, the Pharisees resort to the common artifice of cross-examination; they call on him to repeat his story, in the hope of detecting some real or imaginary discrepancy in his two accounts, by which they may discredit him. He refuses to be cross-examined; grows impatient at their manifest injustice; answers defiantly.--=Ye will not hear.= Equivalent to, Ye will not heed, will not accept. It is useless to repeat testimony which they have resolved to reject. He thus illustrates Christ’s precept, Neither cast ye your pearls before swine (Matt. 7:6).--=Will ye also be his disciples?= Ironical. The man affects to misunderstand their object, and to think that they are inquiring for the purpose of becoming Christ’s disciples. The mere suggestion elicits an indignant disclaimer, and so brings out clearly that they are not honestly seeking to get at the truth respecting Jesus, but are attempting to discredit him. The word _also_ scarcely indicates, as some suppose, that the man is resolved to become Christ’s disciple. We know too little concerning him, as yet, to come to that conclusion (ver. 36). 28 Then they reviled[370] him, and said. Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples. [370] 1 Pet. 2:23. 29 We know[371] that God spake unto Moses: _as for_ this _fellow_, we[372] know not from whence he is. [371] Ps. 103:7; Heb. 3:5. [372] ch. 8:14.