Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:35
‘Jesus heard that they had excluded him, and finding him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?” Jesus, having heard that the man had been excluded from the synagogue, now sought him out. They had thought that they were excluding him from the worship of God, not realising that they were rather throwing Him into the hands of God. Jesus then asked him if he ‘believed in the Son of Man’. Ideas about the heavenly Son of Man were current at the time (see John 3:13; John 5:27; John 6:62 which... read more
James Nisbet's Church Pulpit Commentary - John 9:35
‘DO WE BELIEVE?’‘Dost thou believe on the Son of God?’ John 9:35 The question, ‘Do we believe?’ which excited so long and so interesting a correspondence in a London daily newspaper a few years ago, was first asked by our Lord Jesus Christ. He was the first to ask it, and He did not take it in the general way, ‘Do we believe?’ He put it in a most personal way: ‘Dost thou believe on the Son of God?’ This is a very grave and solemn question, which it would be well for every man to answer for... read more