John 9:7

Then Jesus told him, “Go and wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “sent”). So the man went and washed, and when he went home he could see.

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In The King James Version

And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing.

In Context

6After he'd said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva which he put on the man's eyes.

8His neighbors and those who had known him as a beggar, asked, “Isn't this the man who used to sit and beg?”

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Cross References

Exodus 4:11“Who gave people mouths?” the Lord asked him. “Who makes people deaf or dumb, able to see or blind? It's I, the Lord, who does that.

Nehemiah 3:15The Fountain Gate was repaired by Shallun, son of Col-hozeh, ruler of the Mizpah district. He rebuilt it, put a roof on it, set up its doors, together with its bolts and bars. He rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Shelah by the king's garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.

Isaiah 8:6“Because this people has rejected the waters of Shiloah that gently flow and instead have rejoiced with Rezin and Remaliah's son,

Isaiah 32:3Then everyone with eyes will be able to truly see, and everyone who has ears will be able to truly hear.

Isaiah 42:7You will make the blind see, set free those who are locked up, and lead those who sit in darkness out from prison.

Isaiah 43:8Bring back those who have eyes but are blind, those who have ears but are deaf.

Matthew Henry on John 9:2-8

Sight Given to One Born Blind. 1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had thus… Read the whole commentary →

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