wanted the man to have something to wash off his eyes in the Pool of Siloam. Siloam means ‘sent’ and is the same as ‘Shiloh’, in connection with which we have the Messianic promise in Genesis 49:10: The sceptre shall not depart from Judah … Until Shiloh comes, And to him shall be the obedience of the people. Carson notes that “As it [Siloam] was called ‘Sent’, so Jesus was supremely the sent one … Moreover, in Isaiah 8:6 the Jews reject the waters of Shiloah; here they reject Jesus.”5 In other words,