John 9:10
8 At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
9 Some claimed that he was, but others said, “No, he just looks like him.” But the man kept saying, “I am the one.”
“How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
11 He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”
12 “Where is He?” they asked. “I do not know,” he answered.
Here the Bible tells a story about someone else. Ask yourself what it can say to us today. Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
- KJV
- Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
- WEB
- They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
- ASV
- They said therefore unto him, How then were thine eyes opened?
- DARBY
- They said therefore to him, How have thine eyes been opened?
- BLB
- Therefore they were saying to him, “How then were your eyes opened?”
- ÅB
- De sa da til ham: Hvordan ble dine øyne åpnet?
- OTB
- «Hvordan ble øynene dine åpnet?» spurte de.
- B1930
- De sa da til ham: Hvorledes blev dine øine åpnet?
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Mark 4:27
Night and day he sleeps and wakes, and the seed sprouts and grows, though he knows not how.
Read in contextEcclesiastes 11:5
As you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones are formed in a mother’s womb, so you cannot understand the work of God, the Maker of all things.
Read in contextJohn 3:9
“How can this be?” Nicodemus asked.
Read in contextJohn 9:26
“What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?”
Read in contextJohn 9:15
So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
Read in context1 Corinthians 15:35
But someone will ask, “How are the dead raised? With what kind of body will they come?”
Read in contextJohn 9:21
But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
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