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The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:3

The final cause of human suffering. No man, with an eye to observe and a heart to feel, can look abroad upon human life without being impressed and saddened by the spectacle presented to his view. There is so much of privation, of pain, of weariness, of disappointment, of distress, that it sometimes seems as if "the whole head were sick, and the whole heart faint." "Life," it has been said, "is a tragedy to those who feel." But men are so constituted that they cannot be satisfied to... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:4

We £ must work the works of him that sent me , f1 while it is day. The emendation of the text certainly throws much beauty into the statement. Christ identifies himself with his disciples. They are pledged by accepting his call, and he has been himself charged by his own sublime mission to work while it is called day. The sun was going down over the holy city on that sabbath day, and Jesus will not wait, nor lose the opportunity of doing the merciful will of the Father. He did not... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:4

The day is for labor. Very instructive and very encouraging is the way in which, in this passage, our Divine Lord associates his people with himself. In assuming our nature he accepted the ordinary conditions of our life, its duties and its limitations. Generally speaking, what no man could do he would not do; what all men must submit to he would submit to also. Neither then nor now is he ashamed to call us brethren. As Son of man, he partakes both our nature and our lot. His Spirit and... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:4

The supreme Worker and his opportunity. "I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work." This, like so man y of the memorable sayings of our Lord, is an incidental one, arising out of the circumstances of the hour. On a sabbath day in autumn—the last autumn of his earthly life—our Lord paused as he passed through the streets of Jerusalem to look at a blind beggar, known to be blind from his birth. The sight was sad enough, but instead... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:4

The limits of opportunity. Here is a universal illustration. We need no investigation of the local and the ancient to comprehend its meaning. We all understand the difference between night and day in respect of opportunity for work. Not but what civilization has made considerable encroachments on the realm of night in this particular. It is now true, not only of the astronomer and of the ardent student, but of many besides, that " night is the time for toil." And yet, even with all the... read more

Spence, H. D. M., etc.

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:5

While —or, whensoever— I am in the world, I am the Light of the world. He had said ( John 8:12 ), "I am the Light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness." He was sublimely conscious of his power to do for the moral world what the sun was doing for the physical world. He was the Occasion of its life, the Condition of its activity, the means of its instruction, the Source of all its beauty, its joy, and its progress. The ὅταν , which is translated quamdiu in... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 9:3

Neither hath this man sinned ... - That is, his blindness is not the effect of his sin, or that of his parents. Jesus did not, evidently, mean to affirm that he or his parents were without any sin, but that this blindness was not the effect of sin. This answer is to be interpreted by the nature of the question submitted to him. The sense is, “his blindness is not to be traced to any fault of his or of his parents.”But that the works of God - This thing has happened that it might appear how... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 9:4

The works of him ... - The works of beneficence and mercy which God has commissioned me to do, and which are expressive of his goodness and power. This was on the Sabbath day John 9:14; and though Jesus had endangered his life (John 5:1-16 by working a similar miracle on the Sabbath, yet he knew that this was the will of God that he should do good, and that he would take care of his life.While it is day - The day is the proper time for work - night is not. This is the general, the universal... read more

Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 9:5

As long as I am in the world ... - As the sun is the natural light of the world, even while it sinks away to the west, so am I, although my days are drawing to a close, the light of the spiritual world. What a sublime description is this! Jesus occupied the same place, filled the same space, shed his beams as far, in the moral world, as the sun does on natural objects; and as all is dark when that sun sinks to the west, so when he withdraws from the souls of men all is midnight and gloom. When... read more

Joseph Benson

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 9:1-3

John 9:1-3. And as Jesus passed by The word Jesus is not in the Greek, which is παραγων ειδεν ανθρωπον τυφλον , and passing on; he found a man blind from his birth This chapter, therefore, seems to be a continuation of the preceding. As Jesus and his disciples (having left the temple, where the Jews were going to stone him) were passing through one of the streets of the city, they found a blind beggar, who, to move the people’s compassion, told them he was born in that miserable... read more

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:3

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:4

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:4

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:4

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:4

The Pulpit Commentary - John 9:5

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 9:3

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 9:4

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Whole Bible - John 9:5

Joseph Benson's Commentary of the Old and New Testaments - John 9:1-3

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