John 9:8

Then his neighbors and those who had previously seen that he was blind were saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

Text-Critical English NT

In The King James Version

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”). So he went and washed, and came away seeing.

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

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Cross References

Luke 16:20There was also a poor man named Lazarus, who was laid at the rich man's gate, covered with sores.

Acts 3:2And a man who was lame from his mother's womb was being carried in. Every day people would lay him at the gate of the temple called the Beautiful Gate so that he could ask for alms from those who were entering the temple courts.

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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