Commentary Critical and Explanatory
John 9:13
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
Verse John 9:13. _THEY BROUGHT TO THE PHARISEES_] These had the chief rule, and determined all controversies among the people; in every case of religion, their judgment was final: the people, now full...
TO THE PHARISEES - To the members of the Sanhedrin. They did this, doubtless, to accuse Jesus of having violated the Sabbath, and not, as they ought to have done, to examine into the evidence that he...
CHAPTER 9 _ 1. The Man Born Blind, Healed. (John 9:1 .)_ 2. The Healed Man Questioned. (John 9:8 .) 3. Reviled and Cast Out. (John 9:27 .) 4. Jesus Reveals Himself to Him. ...
THE INCOMPETENCE AND ANGER OF THE AUTHORITIES. In what follows the actors are described first as Pharisees, then as Jews, the larger party of whom the Pharisees are one section. In John 9:13 the attem...
THEY BROUGHT HIM TO THE PHARISEES. It was. notable event that demanded investigation. Hence they brought him to religious men of great influence. These Pharisees were then the ruling sect, and the bl...
LIGHT FOR THE BLIND EYES (John 9:1-5)...
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...
BROUGHT. bring. TO. Greek _pros._ App-104. PHARISEES. See App-120....
Opposite Results of the Sign 13. _They brought_, &c. Better, _they_ BRING _him to the Pharisees_, HIM _that once was blind_. These friends and neighbours are perhaps well-meaning people, not intending...
John 8:12 TO JOHN 9:41. Christ the Source of Truth and Light In John 8:12-46 the word -true" occurs six times, the word -truth" seven times....
John 2:13 TO JOHN 11:57. The Work We here enter on the second portion of the first main division of the Gospel, thus subdivided: The Work (1) among _Jews_, (2) among _Samaritans_, (3) among _Galilean...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE SIGN...
ἌΓΟΥΣΙΝ. These friends and neighbours are perhaps well-meaning people, not intending to make mischief. But they are uncomfortable because work has been done on the Sabbath, and they think it best to r...
8. The neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? 9. Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he....
ΆΓΟΥΣΙΝ _praes. ind. act. от_ ΆΓ (G71) вести. Hist, _praes._ придает живость описанию действия....
THE BLIND MAN INVESTIGATED _Text 9:13-23_ 13 They bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. 14 Now it was the sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. 15 Aga...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 9:8-23 We begin with our usual Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— In our last chapter we pointed out how that the opening verses of John 9 suppl...
1 The sixth sign brings before us Israel's blindness, and the opening of their eyes when they recognize Him as the One Whom God has commissioned, at His return. It anticipates the crisis of His minist...
THE MAN BORN BLIND 1-12. The healing of the man born blind. This miracle occurred on the same day as the events of the last c., i.e. probably on the last day of the Feast of Tabernacles. It is intende...
JOHN TELLS THE GOOD NEWS ABOUT JESUS GOSPEL OF JOHN _MARION ADAMS_ CHAPTER 9 JESUS CURES A MAN WHO WAS BLIND SINCE BIRTH 9:1-12 V1 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a blind man. The man had bee...
THEY BROUGHT TO THE PHARISEES. — More exactly, _They bring_... The present tense speaks of what they did, as the writer thinks of it in actual occurrence. Their question in the previous verse, and the...
CHAPTER 20 SIGHT GIVEN TO THE BLIND. “And as He passed by, He saw a man blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Rabbi, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he should be born...
Ἄγουσιν … τυφλόν. “They,” some of the neighbours and others already mentioned, “bring him who had formerly been blind to the Pharisees,” not to the Sanhedrim, but to an informal but apparently authori...
_The man is examined by the Pharisees, who eventually excommunicate him_,...
THE TESTIMONY OF PERSONAL EXPERIENCE John 9:13-25 The jealous Pharisees now set themselves to discredit the miracle and to throw suspicion upon the witness. But their hostility, prompted by jealousy...
The account of His healing of a blind man follows. Its values are gained very largely in relation to this spirit of opposition which was being exhibited. The case aroused great interest, so much so th...
SABBATICAL FANATICISM John 9:13-16. “ _They lead him to the Pharisees_, _who was at one time blind. And it was the Sabbath_, _on which day Jesus made the mortar and opened his eyes. Then again the Pha...
ADDITIONAL NOTES BY THE AMERICAN EDITOR. Vv. 1-41. 1. The miracle recorded in this chapter occurred probably on the same day with the discourses of the closing part of ch. 8, and not improbably (if J...
“ _They lead the man who was formerly blind to the Pharisees._ 14. _Now it was the Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened the eyes of this_ Man 1:15. _In their turn, the Pharisees also asked him...
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. (14) And it was the sabbath-day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. (15) Then again the Pharisees also asked him, how he had rece...
The point at which we have arrived gives me an opportunity of saying a little on the beginning of this chapter, and the end of the last; for it is well known that many men, and, I am sorry to add, not...
13._They bring to the Pharisees. _The following narrative shows that wicked men are so far from profiting by the works of God, that, the more they are urged by their power, so much the more are they c...
In chapter 9, we come to the testimony of His works, but as down here as a man in lowliness. It is not the Son of God quickening whom He will as the Father, but by the operation of His grace down here...
THEY BROUGHT TO THE PHARISEES,.... That is, to the sanhedrim, which chiefly consisted of Pharisees; and so Nonnus calls them the priests and chief priests: HIM THAT WAS AFORETIME BLIND; to be examine...
They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. Ver. 13. _They bring him to the Pharisees_] Who should have been moved with the miracle to think the better of him that wrought it; and hav...
_They brought to the Pharisees him that was blind_ They brought him to the sanhedrim, which consisted chiefly of Pharisees, at least the Pharisees in the sanhedrim were most active against Christ. Som...
THEY BROUGHT TO THE PHARISEES HIM THAT AFORETIME WAS BLIND....
The inquiry of the Pharisees:...
SIGHT RESTORED TO A MAN BORN BLIND (vs.1-12) Now that it has been clearly demonstrated that the Jews were determined to kill Him, this chapter witnesses a wonderful contrast to such hatred in the Lo...
13-17 Christ not only worked miracles on the sabbath, but in such a manner as would give offence to the Jews, for he would not seem to yield to the scribes and Pharisees. Their zeal for mere rites co...
Whether the neighbours, or his near relations, is not said. Nor is the place mentioned where this convention of Pharisees was, whether in the temple, or in some synagogue, or in the great court which...
John 9:13 brought G71 (G5719) him G846 formerly G4218 blind G5185 to G4314 Pharisees G5330...
‘They bring to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.' The Pharisees were looked on by the people as their spiritual guides, so it was quite a natural act for them to bring the matter to...
John 9:13. THEY BRING TO THE PHARISEES HIM THAT ONCE WAS BLIND. They bring him to the Pharisees as the especial guardians of the religious institutions of Israel. It is not at all likely that the man...
The blind man, restored to sight, is brought before the Pharisees with the view of instituting proceedings against Jesus, who, by the healing on the Sabbath, had violated the sanctity of the day of re...
THEY BRING HIM (αγουσιν αυτον). Vivid dramatic present active of αγω. These neighbours bring him.TO THE PHARISEES (προς τους Φαρισαιους). The accepted professional teachers who posed as knowing e...
John 9:1. _And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth, And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?_ The proced...
John 9:1. _And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answer...
John 9:1. _And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind_ Christ's di...
John 9:1. _And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth._ The man could not see Jesus, but sight came to the man from Jesus. If there are any here who cannot look to Christ as...
We will first read about one of our Lord's miracles, and then, as many of us will be coming to the communion table, we will read about the Lord's supper. John 9:1. And as Jesus passed by, he saw a ma...
John 9:1. _And as Jesus passed by he saw a man which was blind from his birth. And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? Jesus answere...
John 9:1. _And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth._ Therefore the man could not see Jesus, but the more important matter was that Christ could see the blind man. And you,...
CONTENTS: Healing of the man born blind. The fault finding of unbelievers. CHARACTERS: Jesus, blind man, disciples, Pharisees, neighbors, Moses. CONCLUSION: The Lord Jesus Christ came into the world,...
John 9:7. _Go, wash in the pool of Siloam._ Some travellers say that this fountain is supplied by conduits from the Gihon, and that the water has a sweet taste. Mr. Biddulph, quoted on John 4:5, says...
TO THE PHARISEES. This is such an amazing thing, that they take him to the religious authorities....
_They brought to the Pharisees him_ THE FIRST EXAMINATION OF THE MAN I. AN IMPORTANT ADMISSION. The Pharisees recognized that the man saw (John 9:13). If therefore he had been previously blind, ther...
_The neighbours, therefore … said, Is not this he that sat and begged_ TYPES OF CHARACTER IN RELATION TO CHRIST’S WORK--THOSE WHO ARE ONLY SPECULATIVELY INTERESTED IN THE WORK As a stone cast into a...
_And as Jesus passed by He saw a man which was blind from his birth_ JESUS AND THE BLIND MAN I. CHRONIC BLINDNESS. 1. A type of spiritual need (John 9:1; Ephesians 4:18; 2Co Luke 2:34;...
CHAPTER 9 VER. 1. _And as Jesus passed by_, &c. Passing through the midst of His enemies and the crowd of the people. This signifies (though some deny it) that this cure took place immediately after C...
_EXPLANATORY AND CRITICAL NOTES_ John 9:13. THEY BROUGHT.—Better THEY BRING. John 9:14. NOW IT WAS A SABBATH ON THE DAY THAT JESUS MADE THE CLAY, ETC.—It was most likely a festival Sabbath. John 9:1...
EXPOSITION These chapters (9. and 10.) bring the conflict with the Jews to a climax before the commencement of the Peraean ministry. They are doubtless closely connected with what has preceded; but th...
Shall we turn now in our Bibles to the gospel according to John, chapter 9. Jesus had been having a dispute with the Pharisees in the temple at the time of the Feast of the Tabernacles, six months or...
John 11:46; John 11:47; John 11:57; John 12:19; John 12:42;...
THE MAN BLIND FROM BIRTH John 9:1 INTRODUCTORY WORDS 1. A strange question. As Jesus passed by He saw a man which was blind from his birth. That doubtless was a common occurrence along most any road...
Observe here, 1. How the Jews, who should have been full of silent wonder, and inclined to believed in Jesus Christ, so omnipotent an agent, are prejudiced against him, and bring the late blind man be...