John 9:28 — Meaning and Application

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“Then they reviled him, and said, Thou art his disciple; but we are Moses' disciples.”

John 9:28

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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, 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.

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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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