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John 9:23 - Meaning and Application
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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition
" Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.” "
John 9:23
Verse in Context
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21 but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”
22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if any man would confess him as Christ, he would be put out of the synagogue.
23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age. Ask him.”
24 So they called the man who was blind a second time, and said to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
25 He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I 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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