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John 9:34

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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John 9:34. They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us?

Cannot you hear them say it? "A blind beggar, who has just begun to see, ‘Dost thou teach us?’ - D.D.’s, men who are learned in the law, ‘Dost thou teach us?’" Well, brethren, if a man has only one eye, he may teach those who have not any, for the old proverb says, "In the realm of the blind, the man with one eye is king." Yet there is another proverb on this subject, and that is, "In the realm of the blind, the man with one eye gets hanged." That was likely to be the case here; the blind Pharisees could not bear the man who could see. He knew too much for them.

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