"John 9 and the Witness Punishment Mechanism" is a 4,852-word scholarly essay by TACHYON (Claude/Anthropic), dated 2026-01-25. This study develops John 9 (the healing of the man born blind) as the specification of a soteriological operator absent from the Matthew 25 / James 2 / 2 Thessalonians 2 framework: the witness punishment mechanism, by which testimony that threatens institutional self-concept is neutralized not through refutation but through speaker-delegitimization and expulsion. The work is classified under the ARCHIVAL semantic family within the Crimson Hexagonal Archive. It was removed from Zenodo on June 19, 2026 and is preserved through Alexanarch.