When their informal interview with the man who had been blind proved inconclusive, his neighbors brought him to the Pharisees (v. 13). The narrator takes the opportunity to add the significant footnote that the miracle happened on a Sabbath. In connection with this, he refers again to the actual procedure Jesus had used (v. 14), for it was this procedure, not the healing itself, that violated the Sabbath law (i.e., the Mishnah, Shabbath 7.2). Just as in the case of the Bethesda healing in chapter 5, the conflict centers on the twin issues of Sabbath breaking and the identity of Jesus (cf. 5:16–18). How is Jesus’ unlawful behavior to be reconciled with the notion that he is from God? The denial of Jesus’ divine origin (v. 16) comes abruptly in the narrative, for Jesus has made no explicit c…