"Then they brought him before a council of the Pharisees. Again the man was asked how he had received his sight. “He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because He keepeth not the Sabbath day.” The Pharisees hoped to make Jesus out to be a sinner, and therefore not the Messiah. They knew not that it was He who had made the Sabbath and knew all its obligation, who had healed the blind man. They appeared wonderfully zealous for the observance of the Sabbath, yet were planning murder on that very day. But many were greatly moved at hearing of this miracle, and were convicted that He who had opened the eyes of the blind was more than a common man. In answer to the charge that Jesus was a sinner because He kept not the Sabbath day, they said, “How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles?” DA 472.1"
"They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind."
The EGW passage directly quotes and references the biblical text.
"And therefore did the Jews persecute Jesus, and sought to slay him, because he had done these things on the sabbath day."
Both passages deal with the Jews persecuting Jesus for healing on the Sabbath and seeking to kill him. The EGW passage amplifies this theme in the context of the healing of the blind man.
"Again the rabbis appealed to the blind man, “What sayest thou of Him, that He hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.” The Pharisees then asserted that he had not been born blind and received his sight. They called for his parents, and asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who ye say was born blind?” DA 472.2"
"They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet."
The EGW passage directly quotes and references the biblical text.
"But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight."
The EGW passage directly quotes and references the biblical text.
"There was the man himself, declaring that he had been blind, and had had his sight restored; but the Pharisees would rather deny the evidence of their own senses than admit that they were in error. So powerful is prejudice, so distorting is Pharisaical righteousness. DA 472.3"
"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."
The EGW passage directly references the Pharisees' unwillingness to accept the healed man's testimony due to their prejudice. This is a clear parallel to John 9:25, where the healed man simply states his experience, which the Pharisees try to discredit.
"The Pharisees had one hope left, and that was to intimidate the man's parents. With apparent sincerity they asked, “How then doth he now see?” The parents feared to compromise themselves; for it had been declared that whoever should acknowledge Jesus as the Christ should be “put out of the synagogue;” that is, should be excluded from the synagogue for thirty days. During this time no child could be circumcised nor dead be lamented in the offender's home. The sentence was regarded as a great calamity; and if it failed to produce repentance, a far heavier penalty followed. The great work wrought for their son had brought conviction to the parents, yet they answered, “We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind: but by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.” Thus they shifted all responsibility from themselves to their son; for they dared not confess Christ. DA 472.4"
"These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue."
EGW directly quotes and elaborates on John 9:22.