John 9:7

Then he said to him, “Go and wash in Siloam pool!” (That name means ‘sent;’ just like they sent the water by a channel into the pool, God sent Jesus). So the man went and washed in the pool, and when he went home he was able to see!

Translation for Translators

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 said that, he spat on the ground. He made a little bit of mud with the saliva, and put it on the man’s eyes.

8His neighbors and others who previously had seen him when he was begging said, “He is the man who used to sit here and beg, isn’t he?”

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Cross References

Exodus 4:11Then Yahweh said to him/me, “ You seem to forget who it is that makes people able to speak [RHQ]! Who is it that enables people to be unable to speak or unable to hear, or able to see or not to see? It is I, Yahweh [RHQ]!

Nehemiah 3:15Shallum the son of Colhozeh, who ruled Mizpah District, repaired the Fountain Gate. He put/built a roof over the gate, and put in their places the gates and the bolts and the bars for locking the gate. Near the Pool of Shelah he built the wall next to the king’s garden, as far as the steps that went down from the City of David.

Isaiah 8:6‘ I have taken good care of you people, but you have rejected that, thinking that my help was very little, like [MET] the little canal through which water flows from the Gihon Spring into Jerusalem. Instead, you have been happy to request help from King Rezin and King Pekah.

Isaiah 32:3When that happens, those leaders will enable people who have not understood [MET] God’s truth to understand it, and they will enable those who have not paid attention to [MET] God’s truth to pay attention to it.

Isaiah 42:7You will enable blind [IDM] people to see, you will free those who are in prison (OR, who are bound by the guilt of their sins) [MET] and release those who are in dark dungeons.

Isaiah 43:8Summon the people who have eyes but it is as though they are blind; summon those who have ears but because they do not listen to me, it is as though they 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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