The Prelude to the Sign

1. And as Jesus passed by Or, And as He was passing by. This was possibly on His way from the Temple (John 8:59), or it may refer to a later occasion near the Feast of the Dedication (John 10:22). We know that this man begged for his living (John 9:8), and that beggars frequented the gates of the Temple (Acts 3:2), as they frequent the entrances of foreign churches now.

blind from his birth The man would be repeatedly stating this fact to passers by. The Greek for -from his birth" occurs nowhere else in N.T. Justin Martyr uses the phrase twice of those whom Christ healed; Trypholxix.; Apol.i. xxii. No source is so probable as this verse, for nowhere else is there an account of Christ's healing a congenital disease. See on John 1:23 and John 3:3.

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