John 9:28 - Exposition

They reviled him, and said , £ Thou art the disciple of that Man ( ἐκείνου )—between whom and us there is an impassable chasm. Here is one of the strongest indications of the irreversible breach between the Jews and Jesus— but we , instead of being his disciples, are disciples of Moses . This speech shows that, whatever the blind man meant to convey by the reproachful entreaty of John 9:27 , the Jews took it as proof of his virtual confession of discipleship to Jesus, and this they assumed was tantamount to breaking with Moses. They assume that their traditionary interpretation of the Mastic Law has all the authority of the great Lawgiver himself.