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.
 

9:22 put out of the synagogue. This was a threat of excommunication, not only from access to the religious activities in the synagogue, but also from Jewish business and social life in general.

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