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John 9:17 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.” "
John 9:17
Verse in Context
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15 Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
16 Some therefore of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, because he doesn’t keep the Sabbath.” Others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” So there was division among them.
17 Therefore they asked the blind man again, “What do you say about him, because he opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
18 The Jews therefore didn’t believe concerning him, that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight,
19 and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
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John 9:1
"As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth."
John 9:2
"His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”"
John 9:3
"Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him."
John 9:4
"I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work."
John 9:5
"While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”"
John 9:6
"When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,"
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