John 9:22 — Meaning and Application

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“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.”

John 9:22

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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.

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 sinner.

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John 9:1

"And as {Jesus} passed by, he saw a man which was blind from {his} birth."

John 9:2

"And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?"

John 9:3

"Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him."

John 9:4

"I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work."

John 9:5

"As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world."

John 9:6

"When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay, {anointed...: or, spread the clay upon the eyes of the blind man}"

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