John 9 · a question people ask
"Then they threw him out" (9:34). Was he put out of the synagogue?
The chapter tells of an agreement before it tells of the man being thrown out. His parents spoke as they did "because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue" (9:22). Later, after the man says, "If this man were not from God, he could do nothing" (9:33), "They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out" (9:34), and "Jesus heard that they had thrown him out" (9:35). These verses don't say what he was thrown out of, and they don't say whether it was the agreement of 9:22 being kept. These notes set the verses side by side, add no history from outside the Bible, and apply none of it to anyone today.
The verses
“His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.”
“If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.” They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out. Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of God?””