John 9:41

Jesus said to them, If you were blind you would have no sin: but now that you say, We see; your sin is there still.

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Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.

In Context

40These words came to the ears of the Pharisees who were with him and they said to him, Are we, then, blind?

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Cross References

Proverbs 26:12Have you seen a man who seems to himself to be wise? There is more hope for the foolish than for him.

Jeremiah 2:35And still you said, I have done no wrong; truly, his wrath is turned away from me. See, I will take up the cause against you, because you say, I have done no wrong.

Luke 18:14I say to you, This man went back to his house with God's approval, and not the other: for everyone who makes himself high will be made low and whoever makes himself low will be made high.

Hebrews 10:26For if we do evil on purpose after we have had the knowledge of what is true, there is no more offering for sins,

Matthew Henry on John 9:40-41

Christ's Address to the Pharisees. 39 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. 40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. Christ, having spoken comfort to the poor man that was persecuted, here speaks conviction to his persecutors, a… Read the whole commentary →

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