Matthew Poole and continuators on John 9:25

25 He answered, and said, Whether he be a sinner, or no, I know not; One thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see :

This poor man being of no higher quality than a Beggar, can be presumed to have had no great Education; yet his answer is as good as could be expected from one of the greatest breeding, both for security to himself, and his stout asserting what was Truth. As to their Charge upon our Saviour of his being a great Sinner, he avoideth it, telling them, as to that he knew nothing, nor was it his concern to enquire; but this he knew, that he had wrought a great Work on him, for whereas he had been blind from his Mothers Womb, he now had his Sight by his means; so as all their frowns could not tempt him to deny the Miracle wrought upon him, nor yet to speak the least in abatement of it.