(33) If this man were not of God.—His argument meets each of their assertions. His general assumption, admitted as a universal truth (John 9:31), had denied their assertion that this Man was a sinner. His conclusion now denies their assertion, “This Man is not of God” (John 9:16).He could do nothing—i.e., nothing of this kind, no miracle such as this, much less this miracle itself. read more
(34) Thou wast altogether born in sins.—Their reproach now takes the most malignant form, and shrinks not from casting in his teeth the calamity of his birth as the mark of special sin. “Thou didst come into the world,” these words mean, “bearing the curse of God upon thy face. Thou hast said that God heareth not sinners. Thy life in its first moments bore the marks of some fearful crime.”And dost thou teach us?—i.e., “Dost thou, marked more than is the common lot of man by sin, teach us, who... read more
The Birth-mark John 9:1 The text is 'from his birth'; that is to say, from the very moment of his first breathing; something he brought into the world with him and which is, so to say, part of him, is the very signature of Providence upon his personality. Let us get to these fundamental realities and regions, and we may go away from God's altar quiet, calm, confident; because we recognise that the Divine sceptre is over us, the Divine Spirit is in us, the cloud of indication marks the midday,... read more
Chapter 20SIGHT GIVEN TO THE BLIND.“And as He passed by, He saw a man blind from his birth. And His disciples asked Him, saying, Rabbi, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind? Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. We must work the works of Him that sent Me, while it is day; the night cometh, when no man can work. When I am in the world, I am the Light of the world. When He had thus... read more
CHAPTER 9 1. The Man Born Blind, Healed. (John 9:1-7 .) 2. The Healed Man Questioned. (John 9:8-26 .) 3. Reviled and Cast Out. (John 9:27-34 .) 4. Jesus Reveals Himself to Him. (John 9:35-41 .) The healing of the man born blind is a type and an illustration of how Christ, the Light, communicates light and how he who follows the Light walks no more in darkness, but has the light of life. (John 8:12 .) And before He healed the man He testified that His day of activity on earth as Man was... read more
9:1 And {1} as [Jesus] passed by, he saw a man which was blind from [his] birth.(1) Sin is even the beginning of all bodily diseases, and yet it does not follow that in punishing, even very severely, that God is punishing because of sin. read more
9:3 Jesus answered, {a} Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.(a) Christ reasons here as his disciples thought, who presupposed that no diseases came except for the reason of sins: as a result of this he answers that there was another cause of this man’s blindness, and that was in order that God’s work might be seen. read more
9:4 {2} I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is {b} day: the night cometh, when no man can work.(2) The works of Christ are is it were a light, which enlighten the darkness of the world.(b) By "day" is meant the light, that is, the enlightening doctrine of the heavenly truth: and by night is meant the darkness which comes by the obscurity of the same doctrine. read more
9:6 {3} 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,(3) Christ healing the man born blind by taking the symbol of clay, and afterward the symbol of the fountain of Siloam(which signifies "sent") shows that as he at the beginning made man, so does he again restore both his body and soul: and yet in such a way that he himself comes first of his own accord to heal us. read more
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Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers - John 9:32
(32) Since the world began was it not heard.—Literally, from the world-age was it not heard. The phrase is a reminiscence of Isaiah 64:4. (Comp. also Note on Luke 1:70.)The eyes of one that was born blind.—This differentiates the miracle from the others in cases of blindness, and still more from all ordinary cures of maladies of the eyes. The man expresses what was simply true, that no science or skill had at that time been equal to the removal of blindness which had accompanied birth. That... read more