John 9:7

And said to him, Go wash in the pool of Shiloach! + 9:7 2Kgs 5:10 — The name means sent — He went therefore and washed and came seeing. + 9:7 Isa 35:5

Orthodox Jewish Bible

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

6Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva and he anointed the clay upon the manʼs eyes,

8Therefore, the shchenim and the ones seeing the man who was formerly a betler, came, saying, Is this not the man who was sitting and begging?

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Cross References

Exodus 4:11And Hashem said unto him, Who hath made manʼs peh (mouth)? Or who maketh dumb, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Is it not I, Hashem?

Nehemiah 3:15But the Fountain Gate did Shallun ben Kol-Chozeh, ruler of Mitzpah district repair; he rebuilt it, covered it, set up the daletot thereof, the locks thereof, and the bars thereof, and the chomah of the Pool of Shelach + 3:15 Shiloah by the Gan HaMelech, and upto the stairs that go down from the Ir Dovid.

Isaiah 8:6Forasmuch as HaAm HaZeh refuseth 1 the waters of Shiloach that flow softly, 1 and delight in + 8:6 alliance with Retzin and Ben Remalyahu; 1

Isaiah 32:3And the eynayim of them that see shall no longer be closed, 1 and the oznayim of them that hear shall pay heed. 1

Isaiah 42:7To open the einayim ivrot (blind eyes), 1 to bring out the captives from confinement, 1 and them that sit in choshech out of the bais keleh (dungeon, prison). 1

Isaiah 43:8Bring forth the Am Ivver that have eyes, 1 and the chereshim that have oznayim. 1

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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