Jesus wasn’t present when the man healed of blindness was answering the Pharisees’ questions. Jesus may have heard from someone else how the man had been treated, and what he had said, or he may well have been aware through the might of Mind. This reminded me of the following incident –
“Judge Ewing was sent by Mrs Eddy on a lecture tour that took him around the world giving his lecture ‘Christian Science, the Religion of Jesus Christ’. On his return he found himself called on to give a lecture in Lynn, Mass. It was a stormy night and when he got on the platform he immediately felt he was up against an antagonistic audience doubtless composed of the then very large, active body of Spiritualist sympathisers in that town who were strongly opposed to Christian Science.
“It seemed useless for him to try to give his regular lecture to such an audience; so in his usual friendly way of taking his audience into his confidence, Judge Ewing decided the only way was to get nearer to them.
“He got right down from the platform and stood right in front of the audience. He began to talk to them about Lynn, assuring them from his own travel experiences that that their town was well known all over the world for its wonderful footwear that for years had been sent out everywhere. After enlarging on this for a while, he gave them the real reason why Lynn would live forever in the hearts and minds of men – it was the place in which Science and Health was written by Mrs Eddy.
“Then, allowing Spirit to speak through him, he told in beautiful, sympathetic language of some of Mrs Eddy’s struggles, privations and difficulties in bringing forth her book, and emphasised that it was her deep love for mankind that enabled her to stand and overcome all that she had to meet.
“By the time he was through talking about Mrs Eddy there was hardly a dry eye in the place; and so he knew that the opposition was broken and he could deliver his regular lecture on Christian Science. He got back onto the platform and did so.
“The following morning he took the first train to Concord, N.H., where he had an appointment with Mrs Eddy. Immediately Mrs Eddy began to thank him for all the things he had said about her the night before and assured him how true they were. She quoted whole statements he had made and the judge began to puzzle how she could have gotten hold of them, because he himself had come in on the train that brought the newspapers: so she could not have read the reports yet (and the phone was not available then). How was she able to repeat his own statements in his own words?
“Finally he burst out with, ‘How do you know what I said?’ And Mrs Eddy replied, ‘Suppose I told you that I heard you?'”
From ‘The Healer: The Healing Work of Mary Baker Eddy’ by David Lawson Keyston