John 9:22

His parents said this, because they feared the Jews. For the Jews had already agreed, that if any one should confess him to be the Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

Henry Tompkins Anderson’s 1864 New Testament

In The King James Version

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue.

In Context

21but how he now sees we know not; or who opened his eyes we know not. He is of age; ask him; he will speak for himself.

23For this reason his parents said: He is of age; ask him.

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Cross References

Luke 12:4But I say to you, my friends, Fear not them that kill the body, and after that have no more that they can do.

John 7:13However, no one spoke openly of him, for fear of the Jews.

John 9:34They answered and said to him: You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out.

Matthew Henry on John 9:14-35

The Cavilling of the Pharisees; The Cavilling of the Pharisees Refuted. 13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind. 14 And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes. 15 Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. 16 Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such… Read the whole commentary →

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