John 9:34

The interrogators have had enough. They launch an invective, “You are a pathetic soul born as the result of the sin of your parents. What give you the right to give us religious instruction? Get out of here!” They subsequently expelled him from the synagogue.” John 9:34 EFP 

It was bound to happen. The man had taken liberties with his responses to these religious magistrates. Not only do they now feel attacked, they also feel like the day has been wasted. They are not any closer to discrediting either the man or the healer, whose name is still a mystery to the man, though not to the council.

So in the absence of any hard evidence of deception, and faced with an iron-clad testimony by a man who is growing in confidence and stature after every exchange, they resort to insults. Ironically, their attack becomes the concession speech, since in it they describe the man as a product of sin, thus reluctantly and possibly unintentionally that the man was indeed blind at birth.

The men are caught in their own web of lies and denials. They have gained nothing. The man is exonerated. Jesus is cleared. They have lost face. This is the danger of working so hard to discredit those who fall outside the doctrinal box we create for ourselves at the cost of self-scrutiny. A simple testimony, even from a person who is considered a sinner by any measure of the day, outweighs and more than cancels out the weight of evidence brought to bear by those seeking to maintain the status quo. The winner in this episode is the unlikeliest hero. Thus is life in the Kingdom of God—where the last come in first.