John 9:41
Jesus said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin, but now you say, 'We see,' so your sin remains.”
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40Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things and asked him, “Are we also blind?”
Cross References
Proverbs 26:12Do you see someone who is wise in his own eyes? 1 There is more hope for a fool than for him. 1
Jeremiah 2:35Yet you say, 'I am innocent; surely his anger has turned away from me.' 1 But look! I will bring down judgment on you because you say, 'I have not sinned.' 1
Luke 18:14I say to you, this man went back down to his house justified rather than the other, because everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but everyone who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Hebrews 10:26For if we deliberately go on sinning after we have received the knowledge of the truth, a sacrifice for sins no longer exists.
Matthew Henry on John 9:40-41
Christ's Address to the Pharisees. 39 And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind. 40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? 41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth. Christ, having spoken comfort to the poor man that was persecuted, here speaks conviction to his persecutors, a… Read the whole commentary →