John 9

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 9:13-16

9:13-16 They brought him, the man who had been blind, to the Pharisees. The day on which Jesus had made the clay and opened his eyes was the Sabbath day. So the Pharisees asked him again how sight had come to him. He said to them: "He put clay on my eyes; and I washed; and now I can see." So some of the Pharisees said: "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said: "How can a man who is a sinner perform such signs?" And there was a division of opinion... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 9:17-34

9:17-34 Now the Jews refused to believe that he had been blind and had become able to see, until they called the parents of the man who had become able to see, and asked them: "Is this your son? And do you say that he was born blind? How, then, can he now see?" His parents answered: "We know that this is our son; and we know that he was born blind; how he has now come to see we do not know; or who it was who opened his eyes we do not know. Ask himself. He is of age. He can answer his own... read more

William Barclay

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 9:35-41

9:35-41 Jesus heard that they had put him out, so he found him and said to him: "Do you believe in the Son of God?" "But who is he, sir," he answered him, "that I might believe in him?" Jesus said to him: "You have both seen him, and he who is talking with you is he." "Lord," he said, "I believe." And he knelt before him. Jesus said: "It was for judgment that I came into this world that those who do not see might see, and that those who see might become blind." Some of the Pharisees who were... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:1

And as Jesus passed by ,.... The word "Jesus" is not in the Greek text, but is rightly supplied by us, as it is in the Vulgate Latin, and as the word "Christ" is in the Persic version; for of his passing from the temple, and by the multitude that were there, and on his way to the place he designed to make to, is this said, as appears from the close of the preceding chapter; though some think this is to be understood of his passing by at another time and place, since the preceding fact of... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:2

And his disciples asked him ,.... It may be that some of the twelve apostles, or others of his disciples, might put the following question to him on sight of this blind man, who by some means or another knew was born blind: saying, master, who did man, or his parents, that he was born blind ? the first of these questions, whether the man himself had sinned before he was born, which might be the occasion of his blindness, proceeds not upon the doctrine of original sin, though the Jews... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:3

Jesus answered, neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents ,.... Not but that both were guilty of original sin, and had committed actual transgressions; but Christ's answer is to be considered agreeable to the design of the question; and the sense is, that it was not any sin that either of them had committed, whilst he was in the womb, or previous to his birth, that was the cause of this blindness; otherwise, all such irregularities and afflictions arise from sin, and the fall of man, as... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:4

I must work the works of him that sent me ,.... This shows, that the works of God, that were to be manifest, were to be done by Christ: many were the works which the Father gave him to do, and which he undertook to perform; and therefore there was a necessity of doing them, as principally the work of redemption, by fulfilling the law, and satisfying justice: and besides this, there were the preaching of the Gospel, and doing of miracles, and among these was this of giving sight to the blind,... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:5

As long as I am in the world ,.... Which had been now two or three and thirty years; but was not to be much longer. I am the light of the world ; See Gill on John 8:12 . Though doubtless he said this with some view to the cure he was about to perform, it being agreeable to his character and work, while he was in the world. read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:6

And when he had thus spoken ,.... In answer to the disciples' question, and declaring his own work and office in the world, and the necessity he was under of performing it: he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle ; the Misnic doctors speak F3 Misn. Mikvaot, c. 7. sect. 1. of טיט נרוק , "clay that is spitted", or "spittle clay", which their commentators say F4 Jarchi, Maimon. & Bartenora in ib. was a weak, thin clay, like spittle or water; but this here was... read more

John Gill

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:7

And said unto him, go wash in the Pool of Siloam ,.... A fountain of this name is called Siloah, Isaiah 8:6 , and according to the Jewish writers, sometimes Gihon F5 Targum, Jarchi, Kimchi, & Solomon ben Melech in 1 Kings i. 39. ; and this, they say F6 Jarchi & Bartenora in Misn. Succa, c. 4. sect. 9. , was without Jerusalem, though near unto it: hither the Jews went at the feast of tabernacles F7 Misn. Succa, c. 4. sect. 9. , and drew water with great rejoicing,... read more

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 9:13-16

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 9:17-34

William Barclay's Daily Study Bible - John 9:35-41

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:1

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:2

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:3

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:4

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:5

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:6

John Gills Exposition of the Bible Commentary - John 9:7

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