"Wash in the pool of Siloam"

[JoanneF]

I found these two Bible commentaries helpful in understanding more about “wash in the pool of Siloam.”

“Our Lord sent the blind man, thus startled into some receptivity of grace, to that which was the symbolic source of the water of life. He did this on the sabbath day, claiming cooperation with Jehovah: “My Father worketh hitherto, and I work.” Siloam was the type of that which Jesus was in reality, when he had cried and said, “If any man thirst, let him come unto me, and drink.” Consequently, there is striking fitness in the language of St. John here parenthetically introduced. John is correct in his etymology. Siloam probably derived its name from the fact that its waters were sent from the higher sources, through known channels, with special significance as God’s gift for the preservation of the life of the people, and the age-long memorial of his goodness. “Siloam,” as meaning “Sent,” was in John’s thought emblematic of him who had so often spoken of himself as the Sent of God. The blind man needed no guide to Siloam, and he came away from Siloam, seeing; in all the strange and wonderful excitement of a man who, with his first possession of this imperial sense, was moving indeed in a new world.”

And another Bible commentator writes: “Jesus, in sending the man away from Him, is keeping Himself before him in everything connected with his cure. Thus, throughout the whole narrative, all attention is concentrated on Jesus Himself, who is the Light of the world, who was ‘sent of God’ to open blind eyes.”

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