question to confound them; if they answered affirmatively, then, they would have no grounds for censuring the act of curing; if negatively, then, He would have an opportunity of proving the contrary (as in v. 5). 4. They were afraid, if they answered affirmatively, of contradicting their own teaching; if negatively, of being refuted by Him as contradicting their own practice. “Taking him,” touching him with His hand, to show the exercise of Divine power. “Healed him,” all of a sudden, “and sent him
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