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John 9:15

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.

John 9:15

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 9:16-17

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...

John 9:16

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,...

John 9:16-17

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.

John 9:16-17

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...

John 9:16-17

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 9:17

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 9:18-21

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...

John 9:18

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...

John 9:18-21

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...

John 9:18-24

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...

John 9:18-21

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...

John 9:18-21

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...

John 9:19-21

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

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 blind: but by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself. This was very...

John 9:22-24

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him,— They wanted to see if they could catch him in his...

John 9:22

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Excommunicated; and they could not bear to be cut off from the respectable society which they had hitherto enjoyed.

John 9:22-27

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had, agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise; we know that this man is a...

John 9:22-24

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his parents, He is of age; ask him. Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him, Give God the praise: we know that this man is a...

John 9:22-24

Spurgeon - Verse Expositions - Charles H. Spurgeon

These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. Therefore said his parents, He is of age ask him. Then again called they the man that was blind, and said unto him Give God the praise: we know that this man is a...