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Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. “About that point, I am perfectly certain, whatever question there may be concerning anything else.”
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see. Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciple? Then they reviled him, —...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then said they to him again,.... Finding they could not bring him to deny the fact, or cause him to entertain an ill opinion of him that did it, they examine him again about the manner of it: what did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? These questions they had put before, John 9:15, and propose them again, in hope he would vary in the account,...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples? He carried the war into the enemy’s camp, as well he might.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples? He threw a little sarcasm into that last question. The man was a very remarkable person, a simple-hearted, honest man, but withal quite able to...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? He answered them, I have told you already, and ye did not hear: wherefore would ye hear it again? will ye also be his disciples? Then they reviled him, —As they could not answer him, they reviled him. It is the old plan which is still followed by certain lawyers, “No case;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
He answered them, I have told you already,..... As he had, John 9:15, and ye did not hear; the Vulgate Latin version reads, and ye have heard; and so some copies of Stephens's; that is, an account had been given of the manner how his eyes were opened, and they had heard the account with their bodily ears, though not with the ears of their minds;...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
Then they reviled him,.... Called him an impertinent, saucy, impudent fellow, for talking in this pert manner to them, the great sanhedrim of the nation; or, as the Vulgate Latin version reads, they cursed him; they thundered out their anathemas against him, and pronounced him an execrable and an accursed fellow: and said, thou art his disciple;...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then they reviled him,— That is an unprincipled lawyer’s rule,—When you cannot answer the plaintiff’s argument, abuse him. This was the last resort of those who knew that they had a bad case, or no case at all: “Then they reviled him,”—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples. We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners: The man meant, God...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then they reviled him, It is a bad case, so abuse the plaintiff. There is nothing to be said for our side, so let us abuse the man who has had his eyes opened.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples. We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Does not that manifestation of miraculous power show where...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then they reviled him,— That is the usual way with the men of the world; when they cannot beat a man in argument, they begin to call him bad names: “They reviled him,”—
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples. We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Now we know that God heareth not sinners: That is to say, he...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. The word “fellow” is supplied by the translators. There is no such word there, because they did not know a word bad enough with which to express their scorn.
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses’ disciples. We know that God spake unto Moses: As for this — They did not say “fellow,” because they meant something worse than that, something which they could not express: “As for this — “
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
And said, Thou art his disciple but we are Moses’ disciples. We know that God spake unto Moses: as for this fellow, we know not from whence he is. The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. Where could he have come from but from God? Who could have...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
We know that God spoke to Moses,.... Out of the bush, and told him who he was, and sent him to deliver the children of Israel out of Egyptian bondage, and spoke the ten words, or law unto him, and by him delivered them to the children of Israel, and to whom he spake face to face, as a man does to his friend, and mouth to mouth, and not in dark...
Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon
We know not from whence he is. The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes. They were the gentlemen who said, “We know,” and they wanted, a little while before, to silence him by parading their superior knowledge; so now he turns upon them, and says,...
John Gill - Exposition - John Gill
The man answered and said unto them,.... Very appropriately and pertinently, why herein is a marvellous thing; strange and unaccountable, that ye know not from whence he is; that you learned doctors, men of sagacity and penetration, should not be able to discern that this man is of God, is a prophet sent by him, and that there should be any doubt...