John 9:17 Then they turned again to the blind man, "What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened." The man replied, "He is a prophet."

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
Then they turned again to the blind man, "What have you to say about him? It was your eyes he opened." The man replied, "He is a prophet."

English Standard Version
So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”

New American Standard Bible
So they said to the blind man again, "What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?" And he said, "He is a prophet."

King James Bible
They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
Again they asked the blind man, "What do you say about Him, since He opened your eyes?"" He's a prophet," he said.

International Standard Version
So they asked the formerly blind man again, "What do you say about him, since it was your eyes he healed?" He said, "He is a prophet."

American Standard Version
They say therefore unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, in that he opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

Douay-Rheims Bible
They say therefore to the blind man again: What sayest thou of him that hath opened they eyes? And he said: He is a prophet.

Darby Bible Translation
They say therefore again to the blind man, What dost thou say of him, that he has opened thine eyes? And he said, He is a prophet.

Young's Literal Translation
They said to the blind man again, 'Thou -- what dost thou say of him -- that he opened thine eyes?'

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

9:13-17 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 consumed the substantial matters of religion; therefore Christ would not give place to them. Also, works of necessity and mercy are allowed, and the sabbath rest is to be kept, in order to the sabbath work. How many blind eyes have been opened by the preaching of the gospel on the Lord's day! how many impotent souls cured on that day! Much unrighteous and uncharitable judging comes from men's adding their own fancies to God's appointments. How perfect in wisdom and holiness was our Redeemer, when his enemies could find nothing against him, but the oft-refuted charge of breaking the sabbath! May we be enabled, by well-doing, to silence the ignorance of foolish men.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

17. the blind man … said, He is a prophet—rightly viewing the miracle as but a "sign" of His prophetic commission.