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Text -- John 9:1-10 (NET)
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Healing a Man Born Blind
9:1 Now as Jesus was passing by , he saw a man who had been blind from birth .
9:2 His disciples asked him , “Rabbi , who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind , this man or his parents ?”
9:3 Jesus answered , “Neither this man nor his parents sinned , but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him .
9:4 We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime . Night is coming when no one can work .
9:5 As long as I am in the world , I am the light of the world .”
9:6 Having said this , he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva . He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes
9:7 and said to him , “Go wash in the pool of Siloam ” (which is translated “sent ”). So the blind man went away and washed , and came back seeing .
9:8 Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying , “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg ?”
9:9 Some people said , “This is the man!” while others said , “No , but he looks like him .” The man himself kept insisting , “I am the one!”
9:10 So they asked him , “How then were you made to see ?”
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Names, People and Places, Dictionary Themes and Topics
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Names, People and Places:
Dictionary Themes and Topics:
Sabbath |
BEG; BEGGAR; BEGGING |
Miracles |
Jesus, The Christ |
Siloam |
Blindness |
Clay |
Siloam, Pool of |
Rabbi |
Converts |
Night |
Light |
Afflictions and Adversities |
PROVIDENCE, 2 |
Pool |
CISTERN; WELL; POOL; AQUEDUCT |
Covenant |
Death |
AFFLICTION |
DAY |
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NET Notes -> Joh 9:1; Joh 9:1; Joh 9:2; Joh 9:2; Joh 9:2; Joh 9:2; Joh 9:3; Joh 9:3; Joh 9:3; Joh 9:3; Joh 9:3; Joh 9:4; Joh 9:4; Joh 9:4; Joh 9:5; Joh 9:6; Joh 9:6; Joh 9:6; Joh 9:6; Joh 9:7; Joh 9:7; Joh 9:7; Joh 9:8; Joh 9:8; Joh 9:8; Joh 9:9; Joh 9:9; Joh 9:9; Joh 9:9; Joh 9:9; Joh 9:10; Joh 9:10
NET Notes: Joh 9:1 Since there is no break with chap. 8, Jesus is presumably still in Jerusalem, and presumably not still in the temple area. The events of chap. 9 fall ...
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NET Notes: Joh 9:2 The disciples assumed that sin (regardless of who committed it) was the cause of the man’s blindness. This was a common belief in Judaism; the r...
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NET Notes: Joh 9:5 Jesus’ statement I am the light of the world connects the present account with 8:12. Here (seen more clearly than at 8:12) it is obvious what th...
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NET Notes: Joh 9:7 Grk “So he”; the referent (the blind man) is specified in the translation for clarity.
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