John 9:41
Jesus said to them: “If you were blind, you would not have sin. Yet now you say, ‘We see.’ So your sin persists.”
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In Context
40And certain Pharisees, who were with him, heard this, and they said to him, “Are we also blind?”
Cross References
Proverbs 26:12Have you seen a man who seems wise to himself? There will be greater hope held for the unwise than for him.
Jeremiah 2:35And you have said: ‘I am innocent and without sin. And because of this, let your fury be turned away from me.’ Behold, I will contend with you in judgment, because you have said: ‘I have not sinned.’
Luke 18:14I say to you, this one descended to his house justified, but not the other. For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled; and whoever humbles himself will be exalted.”
Hebrews 10:26For if we sin willingly, after receiving knowledge of the truth, there is no sacrifice remaining 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 →