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New Testament ,
The Holy Gospel Of Jesus Christ,
According To John Chapter 9
1 Christ giveth sight on the Sabbath day,
to him that was born blind.
13Whom, after he had long reasoned
against the Pharisees,
22,35 and was cast out of the Synagogue,
36 Christ endueth with the Knowledge
of the everlasting light.
1 And (1) as Jesus passed by, he saw a
man which was blind from his birth.
(1) Sin is the beginning even of all bodily
diseases, and yet doeth it not follow, that
God always respecteth their sins, whom he
most sharply punisheth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying,
Master, who did sin, this man, or his
parents, that he was born blind?
3 Jesus answered, (a) (*) Neither hath
this man sinned, nor his parents, but that
the works of God should be shewed on him.
(a) Christ reasoneth here, as his disciples
thought, which presuppose that there come
no diseases but for sins only; whereupon
he answereth that there was another cause
of this man's blindness, and that was, that
God and his work might be seen.
(*) God doeth not always punish men for
their sins.
4 (2) I must work the works of him that
sent me, while it is (b) (*) day; for the night
cometh when no man can work.
(2) The works of Christ are as it were a
light, which lightens the darkness of the world.
(b) By (day) is meant the light, that is, the
lightsome, doctrine of the heavenly truth;
and by (night) is meant the darkness which
cometh by the obscurity of the same doctrine.
(*) When opportunity and the season serveth.
5 As long as I am in the world, (*) I am
the light of the world.
(*) John 1:9; John 8:12; John 12:35 .
6 (3) As soon as he had thus spoken,
(*) he spat on the ground, and made
clay of the spittle, and anointed the eyes
of the blind with the clay,
(3) Christ healing the man born blind, by
taking the sign of clay, and afterward the
sign of the fountain of Siloam
(which signifieth Sent)
sheweth that as he at the beginning made
man, so doeth he again restore both his body
and soul; and yet so, that he himself cometh
first of his own accord to heal us.
(*) This was not for any virtue that was
in the earth, in the spittle, or in the clay
to make one see; but it only pleased him
to use these signs and means.
7 And said unto him, Go wash in the pool
of Siloam
(which is by interpretation, (*) Sent.)
and He went his way therefore and washed,
and came again seeing.
(*) Hereby was prefigured the Messiah,
who should be sent unto them.
8 (4) Now the neighbors and they that had
seen him before, when he was blind, said,
Is not this he that sat and begged?
(4) A true image of all men, who as they
are of nature blind, do neither themselves receive
the light that is offered unto them, nor suffer
it in others, and yet make a great ado amongst
themselves.
9 Some said, This is he, and others said,
He is like him, but he himself said, I am
he.
10 Therefore they said unto him, How were
thine eyes (c) opened?
(c) This is a Hebrew kind of speech, for they
call a man's eyes shut, when they cannot
receive any light; And therefore they are
said to have their eyes opened, which of blind
men are made to see.
11 He answered, and said, The man that
is called Jesus, made clay, and anointed
my eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool
of Siloam and wash.
So I went and washed, and received sight.
12 Then they said unto him, Where is he?
He said, I cannot tell.
13 ¶ Then They brought to the Pharisees
him that was once blind.
14 And it was the Sabbath day, when Jesus
made the clay, and opened his eyes.
15 Then again the Pharisees also asked
him, how he had received sight.
And he said unto them, He laid clay upon
my eyes, and I washed, and do see.
16 (5) Then 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 dissension among them.
(5) Religion is not assaulted by any means
more than by pretence of Religion, but the
more it is pressed down, the more it riseth up.
17 Then spake they unto the blind again,
What sayest thou of him, because he hath
opened thine eyes?
And he said, He is a Prophet.
18 Then the Jews did not believe him
(that he had been blind, and received his sight)
until they had called the parents of him that
had received sight.
19 And they asked them, saying, Is this
your son, whom ye say was born blind?
How doeth he now see then?
20 His parents answered them, and said,
We know that this is our son, and that he
was born blind;
21 But by what means he now seeth, we
know not; or who hath opened his eyes,
(*) we can not tell; yet he is old enough,
ask him; he shall answer for himself.
(*) They durst not speak the truth for fear
they should be excommunicated.
22 These words spake his parents, because
they feared the Jews; for the Jews had
ordained already, that if any man did confess
that he was Christ, he should be
excommunicated out of the Synagogue.
23 Therefore said his parents, He is old enough;
ask him.
24 Then again called they the man that had
been blind, and said unto him, (d) (*)
Give glory unto God; we know that this man
is a (e) sinner.
(d) A solemn order, whereby men were
constrained in old time to acknowledge their
fault before God, as if they should say, Consider
thou art before God, who knoweth the whole
matter, and therefore see that thou reverence
his majesty, and do him this honor, rather to
confess the whole matter openly, than to lie
before him,
Joshua 7:19; 1 Samuel 6:5 .
(*) That is, Consider that nothing is hid from
God; therefore tell us the truth that God may
be glorified thereby,
1 Samuel 6:5 .
(e) He is called a sinner in the Hebrew tongue,
which is a wicked man, and maketh as it were
an art of sins.
25 Then he answered, and said, Whether
he be a sinner or no, (*) I cannot tell; but
one thing I know, is that I was blind, and
now I see.
(*) He spake this in mockery.
26 (*) Then said they to him again,
What did he to thee?
How opened he thine eyes?
(*) They thought either to drive him from
the truth, or to make him swerve by their oft
times examining him; which practice Satan's
members ever do observe in examining
the Christians.
27 He answered them, I have told you already,
and ye have not heard it; wherefore would
ye hear it again? (*) Will ye also be his disciples?
(*) He derideth their willful malice and ignorance.
28 (6) Then reviled they him, and said,
Be thou his disciple, we be Moses' disciples.
(6) Proud wickedness must needs at length
break forth, which in vain lieth hid under a
zeal of godliness.
29 We know that God spake with Moses,
but this man we know not from whence he is.
30 The man answered, and said unto them,
Doubtless, this is a marvelous thing, that ye
(*) know not whence he is, and yet he hath
opened my eyes.
(*) They doubted not of his country or parents,
but of his office and authority.
31 Now we know that God heareth not
(*) sinners; but if any man be a worshipper
of God, and doeth his will, him heareth he.
(*) Or, wicked men, contemners of God and
such as delight in sin.
32 Since the world began, was it not heard,
that any man opened the eyes of one that was
born blind,
33 If this man were not of God, he could have
done nothing.
34 They answered and said unto him,
(f) Thou art altogether born in sins, and
doest thou teach us?
So they cast him out.
(f) Thou art naught even from the cradle,
and as we used to say, there is nothing
in thee but sin.
35 (7) Jesus heard that they had
(*) cast him out, and when he had found
him, he said unto him, Doest thou believe
in the Son of God?
(7) Most happy is their state, which are cast
furthest out of the Church of the wicked
(which proudly boast themselves of the name
of the Church)
that Christ may come never to them.
(*) Or, excommunicated him.
36 He answered, and said, Who is he, Lord,
that I might believe in him?
37 And Jesus said unto him, Both thou hast
seen him, and he it is that talketh with thee.
38 Then he said, Lord I believe, and
(*) worshipped him.
(*) As all astonished he fell down
and worshipped him.
39 (8) And Jesus said, I am come unto
(g) () judgment into this world, that they
(h) which see not, might see, and that they
(*) which see, might be made blind.
(8) Christ doeth lighten all them by the preaching
of the Gospel, which acknowledge their own
darkness, but such as seem to themselves to
see clearly enough, those he altogether blindeth;
of which sort are they oftentimes, which have
the highest place in the Church.
(g) With great power and authority, to do
what is righteous and just; as if he said,
These men take upon them to govern the people
of God after their own lusts, as though they
saw all things, and no man but they, but I will
rule far otherwise than these men do, for whom
they account for blind men, them will I lighten,
and such as take themselves to be wisest, them
will I drown in most gross darkness of ignorance.
() Meaning, with rule and authority, to make
the poor blind to see, and the proud seers blind.
(h) In these words
(of seeing and not seeing)
there is a secret taunting and cheek to the Pharisees,
for they thought all men blind but themselves.
(*) John 3:17; John 12:47 .
40 And some of the Pharisees which were
with him, heard these things, and said unto him,
Are we blind also?
41 Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind,
(*) ye should not have sin; but now ye say,
We see, therefore your sin remaineth.
(*) You should not be so much in fault.
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