What does John 9:7 mean? Commentary, explanation and study verse by verse.
"And said unto him,Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing."
Verse John 9:7. _SILOAM_] Called also _Shiloah, Silos_, or _Siloa_, was a fountain under the walls of Jerusalem, towards the east, between the city and the brook _Kidron_. _Calmet_ thinks that this wa...
WASH IN THE POOL - In the fountains. OF SILOAM - See the notes at Luke 13:4. BY INTERPRETATION, SENT - From the Hebrew verb to send perhaps because it was regarded as a blessing sent or given by God....
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. (John 9:35 .) The healin...
JOHN 9. THE HEALING OF THE MAN BORN BLIND. JESUS THE LIGHT OF THE WORLD. HOSTILITY TO HIS FOLLOWERS. John 9:1. The Miracle. The expression passed by (_cf._ Mark 1:16) does not necessarily connect the...
GO, WASH IN THE POOL OF SILOAM. A pool in the environs of Jerusalem, called Siloah or Shiloah in Nehemiah 3:15 and Isaiah 8:6. South of the temple mount is. basin hewn out of the rock in part and par...
LIGHT FOR THE BLIND EYES (John 9:1-5)...
WASH. Greek. _nipto._ App-136. See on John 13:10. IN. into. Greek. _eis._ App-104. POOL. Compare John 5:2. Greek. _kolumbethra,_. pool for swimming or bathing. Occurs only here, John 9:11, and John...
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...
THE SIGN...
VER 1. AND AS JESUS PASSED BY, HE SAW A MAN WHICH WAS BLIND FROM HIS BIRTH. 2. AND HIS DISCIPLES ASKED HIM, SAYING, MASTER, WHO DID SIN, THIS MAN, OR HIS PARENTS, THAT HE WAS BORN BLIND? 3. JESUS ANSW...
ΎΠΑΓΕ _praes. imper. act. от_ ΎΠΆΓΩ (G5217) идти. _Praes. imper._ с гл. движения, ΝΊΨΑΙ _aor. imper. act. от_ ΝΊΠΤΩ (G3538) мыть, мыться, купаться в пруду (BAGD). _Aor._ обычно указывает на действие...
DISCOURSE: 1659 THE BLIND MAN HEALED AT THE POOL OF SILOAM John 9:6. _When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the...
GO, WASH IN THE POOL OF SILOAM,— Concerning these waters, the evangelist observes, that their name _Siloam,_ or according to the Hebrew orthography, _Shiloah,_ signifies a _thing that is sent._ This r...
A BLIND MAN HEALED _Text 9:1-12_ 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born b...
EXPOSITION OF THE GOSPEL OF JOHN CHAPTER 31 John 9:1-7 Below will be found an Analysis of the passage which is to be before us:— That there is an intimate connection between John 8 and John 9 is ma...
And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. AND SAID UNTO HIM, GO, WASH IN THE POOL OF SILOAM, (WH...
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 intend...
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 been...
GO, WASH IN THE POOL OF SILOAM. — Comp. Notes on John 5:2 (“Bethesda”), and on Luke 13:4 (“the tower in Siloam”). The locality is almost without doubt that now known by the Arabic form of the same nam...
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...
_The cure narrated_....
JESUS OPENS BLIND EYES John 9:1-12 At the close of the previous chapter our Lord bore the contradiction of sinners against Himself. The Jews had caught up the stones gathered to repair the Temple, i...
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...
The fountain of Siloe was at the foot of the walls of Jerusalem, to the east, where its waters were collected in a reservoir for the benefit of the city. Thither our Saviour sent the blind man. The wo...
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...
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. (7) And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is,...
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...
7._Go, wash in the pool of Siloam. _Unquestionably, there was not, either in _the clay_, or in _the water of Siloam_, any power or fitness for curing the eyes; but Christ freely made use of those outw...
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 SAID UNTO HIM, GO WASH IN THE POOL OF SILOAM,.... A fountain of this name is called Siloah, Isaiah 8:6, and according to the Jewish writers, sometimes Gihon e; and this, they say f, was without Je...
And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. Ver. 7. _He went his way and washed_] He obeyed Christ b...
_When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground_, &c. He did the things here mentioned, that he might exercise the faith and obedience of the patient, and show that he could command efficacy from what...
POOL OF SILOAM; this pool or reservoir was in the south-east part of Jerusalem, at the mouth of the narrow valley separating mount Zion from the hill Ophel. Its water comes from a subterranean channel...
HEALING OF THE MAN THAT WAS BORN BLIND. The miracle:...
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...
1-7 Christ cured many who were blind by disease or accident; here he cured one born blind. Thus he showed his power to help in the most desperate cases, and the work of his grace upon the souls of si...
He doth not only anoint his eyes, but sendeth him also to WASH IN THE POOL OF SILOAM. We read of this pool, NEHEMIAH 3:15; and we are told, that it was a fountain which sprang out from Mount Zion. It...
Irenaeus Against Heresies Book V And inasmuch as man, with respect to that formation which, was after Adam, having fallen into transgression, needed the layer of regeneration, [the Lord] said to him...
John 9:7 And G2532 said G2036 (G5627) him G846 Go G5217 (G5720) wash G3538 (G5669) in G1519 pool G2861 Siloam G4611 which G3739 translated G2059 (G5743) Sent G649 (G5772)) So G3767 went G565 (G5627) a...
‘Then he said to him ‘Go, wash in the pool of Siloam', which is by interpretation ‘sent'.' The author draws attention to Siloam as meaning ‘sent'. We are thus almost certainly intended to see it as me...
The conflict of Jesus with the Jews begins to draw to a close. At the last verse of the preceding chapter Jesus had hidden Himself and gone out of the temple, leaving it in possession of those who had...
WASH (νιψα). First aorist middle imperative second person singular of νιπτω, later form of νιζω, to wash, especially parts of the body. Certainly bathing the eyes is good for eye trouble, and yet w...
John 9:6 If we find that in the exercise of His miraculous power, our Lord in many instances, in a greater or less degree, employs means, the question naturally arises, in what relation do these mean...
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...
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...
GO WASH YOUR FACE. Christ requires an _act of faith._ The man must _reach out through faith to seize the promise._ When he does this, he can see! [The pool is dug in the rock: 53 feet long, 18 feet wi...
_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; Isaiah 59:9;...
JOHN—NOTE ON JOHN 9:7 POOL OF SILOAM. Archaeology indicates a large pool (225 feet [69 m] long on one side) with steps leading down into it. ⇐ ⇔ ⇒ var images = document.getElementsByTagName("img"); f...
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 9:1. The connection of this narrative with what precedes and what follows is variously stated. Westcott, _e.g._, supposes that the occurrence took place at the fe...
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...
2 Kings 5:10; Acts 26:18; Exodus 4:11; Galatians 4:4; Isaiah 29:18; Isaiah 29:19; Isaiah 32:3; Isaiah 35:5; Isaiah 42:16; Isaiah 42:7;...
Wash [ν ι ψ α ι]. Wash the eyes. See on Acts 16:33. Siloam. By Rabbinical writers, Shiloach : Septuagint, Silwam : Vulgate and Latin fathers, Siloe. Josephus, generally, Siloa. In scripture always cal...
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 roa...
Go, wash at the pool of Siloam — Perhaps our Lord intended to make the miracle more taken notice of. For a crowd of people would naturally gather round him to observe the event of so strange a prescri...