John 9:41
Yeshua said to them, “If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.
World Messianic Bible British
In The King James Version
In Context
40Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
Cross References
Proverbs 26:12Do you see a man wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
Jeremiah 2:35“Yet you said, ‘I am innocent. Surely his anger has turned away from me.’ “Behold, I will judge you, because you say, ‘I have not sinned.’
Luke 18:14I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other; for everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, but he who humbles himself will be exalted.”
Hebrews 10:26For if we sin wilfully after we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remains no more a sacrifice for sins,
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 →