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John 9:6

Miracles and God's interventionSickness and healing

4 While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.

5 While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.

7 Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.

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?”

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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.

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BSB
When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.
KJV
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,
WEB
When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
ASV
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,
DARBY
Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud of the spittle, and put the mud, as ointment, on his eyes.
BLB
Having said these things, He spit on the ground and made clay of the spittle, and He applied the clay to his eyes.
ÅB
Da han hadde sagt dette, spyttet han på jorden og gjorde en deig av spyttet og smurte deigen på hans øyne.
OTB
Etter å ha sagt dette, spyttet Han på bakken, laget litt leire med spyttet, og smurte det på mannens øyne.
B1930
Da han hadde sagt dette, spyttet han på jorden og gjorde en deig av spyttet og smurte deigen på hans øine.

Study notes (Tyndale)

Original text and word study

Cross references

  • Mark 8:23

    So He took the blind man by the hand and led him out of the village. Then He spit on the man’s eyes and placed His hands on him. “Can you see anything?” He asked.

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  • Mark 7:33

    So Jesus took him aside privately, away from the crowd, and put His fingers into the man’s ears. Then He spit and touched the man’s tongue.

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  • Revelation 3:18

    I counsel you to buy from Me gold refined by fire so that you may become rich, white garments so that you may be clothed and your shameful nakedness not exposed, and salve to anoint your eyes so that you may see.

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