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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
I must work the works of him that sent me,.... This shows, that the works of God, that were to be manifest, were to be done by Christ: many were the works which the Father gave him to do, and which he undertook to perform; and therefore there was a necessity of doing them, as principally the work of redemption, by fulfilling the law, and...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. Our Saviour felt that he was commissioned as a servant of his Father, sent here to do a certain work, and he must be doing it. It is well for God’s servants to feel a holy compulsion. It...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when, no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay. And said unto, him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: “I have no time to go into these questions with you, merely to satisfy your curiosity. ‘While it is day,’ I must go on with the work which I was sent into the world to do.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. When he had thus spoken, he Spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
As long as I am in the world,.... Which had been now two or three and thirty years; but was not to be much longer. I am the light of the world; [See comments on John 8:12]. Though doubtless he said this with some view to the cure he was about to perform, it being agreeable to his character and work, while he was in the world.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. While Christ was here on earth, he was the great Light-Giver, and he is still the great Light-Giver; and now that his visible presence has been withdrawn from the world, his people are to be “the light of the world” by reflecting the light they have received from him. In such works as you...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And when he had thus spoken,.... In answer to the disciples' question, and declaring his own work and office in the world, and the necessity he was under of performing it: he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle; the Misnic doctors speak (c) of טיט נרוק, "clay that is spitted", or "spittle clay", which their commentators say (d) was a...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. The neighbours therefore. and they which before had seen him that he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. Our Lord often works miracles without means, and sometimes with means...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
And said unto him, go wash in the Pool of Siloam,.... A fountain of this name is called Siloah, Isaiah 8:6, and according to the Jewish writers, sometimes Gihon (e); and this, they say (f), was without Jerusalem, though near unto it: hither the Jews went at the feast of tabernacles (g), and drew water with great rejoicing, and brought it, and...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him,.... For it seems the blind man was not a stranger, one that came out of the country to the city to beg; but a native of Jerusalem, that had long lived in a certain neighbourhood in it, and was well known to be what he was; that he was blind; the Alexandrian copy, and one of Beza's...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he. Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened? He answered and said, A Man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said, This is he; others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he. There is an end of all question about the matter; he says, “I am the very man.” No one knew this better than he did, and therefore he was the one to say...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was, blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said, This is he: We are sure of it.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, is not this he that sat and begged? Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he. With that downright simplicity and shrewdness which marked his whole character, the man said, “I am he.” He did not go beating about the bush at all, but...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
The neighbors therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind said, Is not this he that sat and begged? Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he. “There is no question about my identity, I am the same man whom you have seen sitting and begging, and I now come before you with my sight fully restored.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Some said, this is he,.... It is the same man that was blind, and begged: others [said]; in one of Beza's copies it is added "no", and so read the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions; though they owned and said, he is like him. This discourse of the neighbours concerning the blind man restored to sight, resembles the talk that generally...