John 9:19

and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

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WEBBE

and asked them, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”

BSB

and asked, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he can now see?”

KJV

And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?

ASV

and asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?

BBE

And put the question to them, saying, Is this your son, of whom you say that he was blind at birth? how is it then that he is now able to see?

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καὶ kai And G2532 ἠρώτησαν ērōtēsan they asked G2065 αὐτοὺς autous them G846 λέγοντες legontes saying G3004 οὗτός houtos This G3778 ἐστιν estin is G1510 ὁ ho the G3588 υἱὸς huios son G5207 ὑμῶν humōn of you G4771 ὃν hon of whom G3739 ὑμεῖς humeis you yourselves G4771 λέγετε legete say G3004 ὅτι hoti that G3754 τυφλὸς tuphlos blind G5185 ἐγεννήθη; egennēthē he was born G1080 πῶς pōs How G4459 οὖν oun then G3767 βλέπει blepei does he see G991 ἄρτι;¶ arti presently G737

The early church

"Is this your son?" (and they said not, "who once was blind," but) "of whom ye say that he was born blind?" As if they were acting deceitfully, and plotting on behalf of Christ. O ye accursed, utterly accursed! What father would choose to invent such falsehoods against his child? For they almost say, "Whom ye have made out blind, and not only so, but have spread abroad the report everywhere." "How then doth he now see?" O folly! "Yours," saith one, "is the trick and the contrivance." For by these two things do they attempt to lead the parents to a denial; by using the words, "Whom ye say," and, "How then doth he now see?" Now when there were three questions asked, whether he was their son, whether he had been blind, and how he received his sight, the parents only acknowledge two of them, but do not add the third. And this came to pass for the sake of the truth, in order that none other save the man that was healed, who was also worthy of credit, should acknowledge this matter.
John Chrysostom · d. 407Homilies on John

Commentary

Matthew Henry · Verses 18–23

The Pharisees vainly hoped to disprove this notable miracle. They expected a Messiah, but could not bear to think that this Jesus should be he, because his precepts were all contrary to their traditions, and because they expected a Messiah in outward pomp and splendour. The fear of man brings a snare, Pr 29:25, and often makes people deny and disown Christ and his truths and ways, and act against their consciences. The unlearned and poor, who are simple-hearted, readily draw proper inferences from the evidences of the light of the gospel; but those whose desires are another way, though ever learning, never come to the knowledge of the truth.

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