John 9:8

The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?”

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The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

In Context

7and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). + 9:7 Context: This is still the seventh month 22nd day, the Festival of Sh'mini Atrzeret ·Eighth day Assembly·, a separate and linked Festival for one day following Sukkot ·Tabernacles·. There was a very significant water drawing ceremony from this very same pool just one day earlier. (See John 7:37). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

9Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”

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Cross References

Luke 16:20A certain beggar, named Lazarus [Help of God], was laid at his gate, full of sores,

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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