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John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then again the Pharisees asked him,.... Not that they had put any question of this kind to him before; but they also, as well as the neighbours, inquired of him, how he had received his sight; from whom, and by what means: he said unto them, he put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed and do see. This account agrees with the matter of fact, and with...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. Now that he has to deal with Pharisees, he will not waste a word upon them. The more often he tells the story, the shorter it becomes. That is not the usual rule with stories; they generally grow like...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight, He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. They...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. He is shorter with them. Some tales grow in telling. His gets shorter. Besides, he has to deal with captious people; end then the least said the soonest mended; and this shrewd man thought so.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. He makes his story shorter as he goes on telling it. These people were unworthy of the words he spoke to them, and therefore he gave them as few as possible.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see. That is shorter than his previous account of the miracle. When Pharisees ask a carping question, the shorter the answer the better; it is a pity to cast pearls before swine.
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Wherefore said some of the Pharisees,.... Or sanhedrim, for they were not all of one mind, as appears by what follows: this man is not of God; meaning not the blind man, but Jesus; and their sense is, he is not sent of God, he does not come from him to do his will and work, nor does he seek his glory, nor is he on his side, or for his interest;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such Miracles? And there was a division among them. They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. He felt that he could safely go...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. Yes, and there is a division among the enemies of Christ always; they cannot agree among themselves. If they could always lay their heads together,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. He could see that.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. That was as much as he then...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Therefore said some of the Pharisees, This man is not of God because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others said, How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a division among them. They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes! He said, He is a prophet. He was a brave man, who dared...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
They say unto the blind man again,.... After they had discoursed among themselves, and could not agree about the author of the miracle, they turn to him that had been blind, who is called the blind man, because he had been so, and ask him his sentiments of him: what sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? the question seems, at first...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet. He must be a prophet. He could not have worked such a miracle as that if he had been a common man: “He said, He is a prophet.”
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
But the Jews did not believe concerning him,.... Not Jesus, but the blind man; that he had been blind, and received his sight; they imagine there was a fraud in the case, that it was collusion between Jesus and this man; that he was a man who had never been blind, but only had given out that he was, and pretended he had now received his sight from...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. You see, John gives to the Pharisees the name which they arrogated to themselves: “we are Jews.” But they were not true Jews. They called themselves Jews, and so John speaks of them as “the...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? How then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight. And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see? His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born...