SECOND CYCLE: CHAPTS. 9 AND 10. The consequences of the first point of departure, the healing of the impotent man, chap. 5, are exhausted. A new miracle produces a renewed breaking out of hatred among the Jews and calls forth a new phase of the conflict. Nevertheless, one feels that the worst of th... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _And in passing, he saw a man blind from birth;_ 2 _and his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?_ 3. _Jesus answered, Neither did he nor his parents sin; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him._ 4. _I must work t... [ Continue Reading ]
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 John 7:53 to John 8:11 be rejected) on the day mentioned in John 7:37. 2. The question of the discip... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _Having said this, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed with this clay the eyes of the blind_ Man 1:7 _and he said to him; Go, wash in the pool of Siloam_ (_a name which means, Sent_). _He went away therefore and washed, and came seeing._ ” By the words: _having said... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _His neighbors therefore, and those who before saw him begging_, _said, Is not this he that sat and begged?_ 9. _Some said, It is he; others, He is like him. He said, I am Hebrews 10_. _Thereupon they said to him, How were thine eyes opened?_ 11. _He answered and said_, _A man called Jesus made cl... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _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 how he had recovered his sight. He said to them, He put clay upon my eyes, and I washed, and I see._... [ Continue Reading ]
VER. 14. _Keil_ remarks that the expression is not _for_, but _now_ (δέ). There is therefore no indication here of the reason for which they brought him; it is an incidental remark, explanatory of what follows. The words: _He made clay_ are skillfully added in order to make prominent the anti-Sabbat... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _The Jews therefore did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had recovered his sight, until they had called the father and the mother of him who had recovered his sight;_ 19 _and they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?_ 20.... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _They called, for the second time, the man who had been blind, and they said to him, Give glory to God; we know that this man is a wicked person._ 25. _He answered them, Whether he is a wicked person, I know not; one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see._ 26. _They said_ _to him again... [ Continue Reading ]
present the moral result of this miracle, and John 9:39-41 formulate that of the activity of Jesus in general. VV. 35-38. “ _Jesus heard that they had driven him out; and having found him, he said to him: Dost thou believe on the Son of man?_ 36. _He answered and said, And who is he, Lord, that I m... [ Continue Reading ]
“ _And Jesus said, I am come into this world to exercise this judgment, that those who see not may see, and that those who see may become blind._ 40. _And those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these words and they said to him, And are we also blind?_ 41. _Jesus said to them, If you were bli... [ Continue Reading ]