<p>9:35 <i>Jesus heard that they had excommunicated him; and on finding him, he said: Do you believe on the Son of God?</i>- Perhaps the Lord wondered whether the man's logical and spiritual process had led him to conclude that &quot;the man called Jesus&quot; was in fact Son of God. As noted on :17 and :27, John's Gospel is full of questions which would have jumped out at the initial hearers- 'Do <i>you</i> believe on the Son of God?'. The man is clearly set up as representative of all who would afterwards believe. John's Gospel was written, and the &quot;signs&quot; such as the healing of the blind man were recorded, so that others would make this very same confession of faith in the Son of God (20:31). John urges his converts to continue their 'belief in the Son of God' (1 Jn. 5:13). Surely he is alluding to this man as the prototype of all the Christian converts.</p>