Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes
John 9:39
For judgment. am come. Referring to the effect of His coming: John 12:47 refers to the object of His coming.
For. Greek. eis. App-104.
judgment. App-177.
into. Greek. eis.
be made. become.
For judgment. am come. Referring to the effect of His coming: John 12:47 refers to the object of His coming.
For. Greek. eis. App-104.
judgment. App-177.
into. Greek. eis.
be made. become.
JOHN 9:38-39 o` de. e;fh … kai. ei=pen o` VIhsou/j {B} Several witnesses lack the words o` de. e;fh( Pisteu,w ku,rie\ kai. proseku,nhsen auvtw|/) kai. ei=pen o` VIhsou/j (î75 a* W itb, (1) co...
Verse 39. _FOR JUDGMENT I AM COME_] I am come to manifest and execute the just judgment of God: 1. By giving _sight_ to the _blind_, and _light_ to the _Gentiles_ who sit in darkness. 2. By removing...
FOR JUDGMENT - The word “judgment,” here, has been by some understood in the sense of condemnation - “The effect of my coming is to condemn the world. But this meaning does not agree with those places...
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. ...
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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...
LIGHT FOR THE BLIND EYES (John 9:1-5)...
"The concluding verses contain a saying which is thoroughly in the manner of the Synoptists (cf. Matthew 15:14; Matthew 23:16-17; Matthew 23:24;...
_And Jesus said_ There is no need to make a break in the narrative and refer these words to a subsequent occasion. This is not natural. Rather it is the sight of the man prostrate at His feet, endowed...
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ΚΑῚ ΕἾΠ. Ὁ Ἰ. There is no need to make a break in the narrative and refer these words to a subsequent occasion. This is not natural. Rather it is the sight of the man prostrate at His feet, endowed no...
OPPOSITE RESULTS OF THE SIGN...
VER 1A. IN THE BEGINNING WAS THE WORD,...
ΒΛΈΠΟΝΤΕΣ _praes. act. part. от_ ΒΛΈΠΩ (G991) видеть. _Praes._ описывает одновременное действие. Уступительный _part._, "чтобы они увидели, даже несмотря на то, что не могут видеть" ΒΛΈΠΩΣΙΝ _praes....
DISCOURSE: 1661 DISCRIMINATING EFFECTS OF THE GOSPEL John 9:39. _Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they who see might be made blind_. THE...
AND JESUS SAID, FOR JUDGMENT, &C.— In these words directed to the people who happened to be present, or to come up while Jesus was talking with the blind man, our Lord alluded to the cure lately perfo...
BLINDNESS INDEED! _Text 9:35-41_ 35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, he said, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 36 He answered and said, And who is he, Lord, that I may...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN John 9:24-41 The following is offered as an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— "Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Giv...
And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. AND JESUS SAID - perhaps at the same time, but after a crowd...
16 It is notable how many of our Lord's recorded signs were done on the sabbath. Doubtless this indicates the fact that their antitype is to be found in the sabbatism which comes at His epiphany. When...
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...
FOR JUDGMENT I AM COME] This does not contradict John 3:17, for the 'judgment' meant here is not the judicial act of rewarding and punishing, which Christ will exercise at the Last Day, but the presen...
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...
FOR JUDGMENT I AM COME INTO THIS WORLD. — These words arise immediately out of what has preceded. The beggar has passed from a state of physical blindness, and has received the faculty of sight. He ha...
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...
Summing up the spiritual significance of the miracle Jesus said: Εἰς κρίμα … γένωνται. “For judgment,” for bringing to light and exhibiting in its consequences the actual inward state of men; “that th...
to John 10:21. _The good and the hireling shepherds_....
“A STONE OF STUMBLING” John 9:35-41; John 10:1-6 In John 9:35 we hear of Jesus finding the outcast, whom the Pharisees had excommunicated; and this story is appropriately followed by a picture of the...
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...
(8) And Jesus said, For (g) judgment I am come into this world, that they (h) which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. (8) Christ enlightens all those by the preaching of...
For judgment I am come into this world. Christ said (chap. iii. 17.) that God did not send his Son to judge the world: the same he repeats; (John xii. 47.) nor is this contradictory to those words: th...
OPTICAL ENIGMAS John 9:39-41. “ _And Jesus said_, _For judgment I came into the world_, _in order that those not seeing may see_, _and those seeing may be made blind. Certain ones of the Pharisees bei...
“ _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 hear...
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...
Jesus heard that they had cast him out: and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? (36) He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? (37)...
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...
_RESPONSIBILITY AND SIN_ ‘For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might he made blind. And some of the Pharisees which were with Him heard t...
_FOR JUDGMENT_ ‘And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.’ John 9:39 That is the comment which presents...
39._For judgment am I come into this world. _The word _judgment _cannot be understood, in this passage, to denote simply the punishment which is inflicted on unbelievers, (276) and on those who despis...
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...
AND JESUS SAID, FOR JUDGMENT I AM COME INTO THIS WORLD,.... The Syriac version reads, "for the judgment of this world I am come"; and with which agrees the Ethiopic version, "for the judgment of the w...
And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. Ver. 39. _For judgment I am come_] To judge, much otherwise tha...
_And Jesus said_ While he stood talking with the blind man who had received his sight, several people, it seems, being gathered about them; _For judgment_, as well as mercy, _I am come into this world...
FOR JUDGMENT; that those who feel their spiritual blindness, and apply to me for sight, may receive it; and that those who do not, but proudly imagine that they see enough already, and reject my aid,...
AND JESUS SAID, FOR JUDGMENT I AM COME INTO THIS WORLD, THAT THEY WHICH SEE NOT MIGHT SEE; AND THAT THEY WHICH SEE MIGHT BE MADE BLIND....
The judgment upon willful blindness:...
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...
39-41 Christ came into the world to give sight to those who were spiritually blind. Also, that those who see might be made blind; that those who have a high conceit of their own wisdom, might be seal...
There is a great variety in interpreters notions about the JUDGMENT here mentioned. Some think that by it is meant the Divine counsel and decree: I am come into the world, to execute the just will, an...
Origen Against Celsus Book VII This twofold kind of vision in us was familiar to our Saviour, who says," For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not, might see, and that they whic...
John 9:39 And G2532 Jesus G2424 said G2036 (G5627) For G1519 judgment G2917 I G1473 come G2064 ...
‘And Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that they who see not may see, and that they who see might become blind”.' The scene now changes. We now have a general statement made by Jesus...
John 9:39. AND JESUS SAID, FOR A JUDGMENT CAME I INTO THIS WORLD, THAT THEY WHICH SEE NOT MAY SEE, AND THAT THEY WHICH SEE MAY BECOME BLIND. The rendering ‘a judgment' may serve to remind us of the fa...
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...
FOR JUDGEMENT (εις κριμα). The Father had sent the Son for this purpose (John 3:17). This world (κοσμος) is not the home of Jesus. The κριμα (judgement), a word nowhere else in John, is the result o...
WORLD Greek, "kosmos", means "mankind". (_ See Scofield) - (Matthew 4:8). _...
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,...
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 answere...
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...
I CAME TO THIS WORLD TO JUDGE. Not as a "judge on the bench," but to force people to "sort themselves out." Compare notes on Matthew 11:25; John 6:37. Those who "become blind," refuse to see Truth....
_For judgment I have come into the world_ CHRIST’S MISSION TO THE WORLD I. HAS TWO APPARENTLY OPPOSITE RESULTS. 1. Of these (1) One is the greatest blessing: “That they which see not might see.” Al...
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...
1 John 2:11; 1 Peter 2:9; 2 Corinthians 2:16; 2 Corinthians 4:4;...
Judgment [κ ρ ι μ α]. Not the act of judgment, but its result. His very presence in the world constitutes a separation, which is the primitive idea of judgment, between those who believe on Him and th...
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...
For judgment am I come into the world — That is, the consequence of my coming will be, that by the just judgment of God, while the blind in body and soul receive their sight, they who boast they see,...
In these words our Saviour declares not the intentional design, but the accidental event, of his coming into the world, namely, 1. That those who were blind might receive sight. 2. That those who pr...