Parallel Verses New International Version His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
English Standard Version And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
New American Standard Bible And His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he would be born blind?"
King James Bible And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?
Holman Christian Standard Bible His disciples questioned Him: "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"
International Standard Version His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that caused him to be born blind?"
American Standard Version And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?
Douay-Rheims Bible And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?
Darby Bible Translation And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?
Young's Literal Translation and his disciples asked him, saying, 'Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'
Cross References Exodus 20:5 You shall not bow down yourself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD your God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children to the third and fourth generation of them that hate me;
Matthew 23:7 And greetings in the markets, and to be called of men, Rabbi, Rabbi.
Matthew 23:8 But be not you called Rabbi: for one is your Master, even Christ; and all you are brothers.
Luke 13:2 And Jesus answering said to them, Suppose you that these Galilaeans were sinners above all the Galilaeans, because they suffered such things?
John 4:31 In the mean while his disciples prayed him, saying, Master, eat.
John 9:1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
John 9:34 They answered and said to him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.
Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the venomous beast hang on his hand, they said among themselves, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped the sea, yet vengeance suffers not to live.
Jump to Previous Birth Blind Born Disciples Master Mother Parents Question Rabbi Sin SinnedJump to Next Birth Blind Born Disciples Master Mother Parents Question Rabbi Sin SinnedCommentaries 9:1-7 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 sinners, which gives sight to those blind by nature. This poor man could not see Christ, but Christ saw him. And if we know or apprehend anything of Christ, it is because we were first known of him. Christ says of uncommon calamities, that they are not always to be looked on as special punishments of sin; sometimes they are for the glory of God, and to manifest his works. Our life is our day, in which it concerns us to do the work of the day. We must be busy, and not waste day-time; it will be time to rest when our day is done, for it is but a day. The approach of death should quicken us to improve all our opportunities of doing and getting good. What good we have an opportunity to do, we should do quickly. And he that will never do a good work till there is nothing to be objected against, will leave many a good work for ever undone, Ec 11:4. Christ magnified his power, in making a blind man to see, doing that which one would think more likely to make a seeing man blind. Human reason cannot judge of the Lord's methods; he uses means and instruments that men despise. Those that would be healed by Christ must be ruled by him. He came back from the pool wondering and wondered at; he came seeing. This represents the benefits in attending on ordinances of Christ's appointment; souls go weak, and come away strengthened; go doubting, and come away satisfied; go mourning, and come away rejoicing; go blind, and come away seeing.
2. who did sin, this man or his parents, that he was born blind—not in a former state of existence, in which, as respects the wicked, the Jews did not believe; but, perhaps, expressing loosely that sin somewhere had surely been the cause of this calamity. |
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