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Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:1

1. As Jesus passed by Did this take place as Jesus passed from the excited scene at the close of the last chapter? Or is there an interval of some days, and the opening of a new event? In favour of the former view is the obvious sense of the language implying no break, and the fact that the temple where that scene took place was an ordinary place for the beggar to post himself for alms. On the contrary, however unexcited Jesus may have been, the disciples could scarce at such a moment... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:1-41

§ 84. RESTORATION OF THE BLIND-BORN AND FOURTH DISCOURSE AT THE FEAST OF TABERNACLES, John 9:1 John 10:21 . The event here narrated, with its appended discourse, must, in order to be understood in its completeness, be taken into one reading from John 9:1 to John 10:39. It takes place at the Feast of Tabernacles. Through chapter ix the spiritual lords of Jerusalem show themselves false shepherds, as the blind-born is a true representative sheep; and through John 10:1-21 Jesus contrasts the ... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:2

2. Who did sin? We have here a bit of speculative theology. The disciples assume the prevalent doctrine as true, that special calamities are the result of special sinfulness. If they had assumed that the race is liable to miseries because the race is depraved, there would have been no error. It is also true that many sins entail particular sufferings upon posterity, physical, moral, and political. Nevertheless, special sufferings are not absolute proof of special guilt. This man, or... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:3

3. Neither… this man… nor his parents Our Lord does not deny that they had sinned, but that they had sinned as the cause of his being born blind. Works of God We do not understand our Lord to say that the single object for which this man was born blind was, that Jesus might work a miracle upon him. God is a divine teacher; awakening, instructing, and developing the minds of men, by the phenomena around them, to a full knowledge, both scientific and spiritual, of his works in nature and in... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:4

4. I must work the works The apparent defect in this work of nature, so called, gave room for the manifestation of a work of grace. But the work, whether of nature, as in the case of the man’s being born blind, or of grace, as of his being restored to sight, is in either case the work of him that sent me God. While it is day In the terms day, night, light, of John 9:4-5, we recognize some allusion to the night of the blind man’s eyes on which he was to pour the light of day. ... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:5

5. As long as The objects of labour are, like this blind man, perpetually turning up; there must be no tiring during the brief day of his earthly life. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:6

6. He spat on the ground The Lord uses instrumentalities for the end, to show that the end was the purposed end, and not mere coincidence or chance. He uses instrumentalities plainly inadequate, to show that the power was miraculous. Both spittle and clay were often used by the ancients as an ointment for the cure of weak eyes; and this again indicates that our Lord purposes, by their use, to show that the cure is the result of his purpose. Yet no one could ever believe that the cure of... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:7

7. Go, wash An act of faith is the condition to his salvation. Had he refused, he might have been doomed to perpetual darkness. Pool of Siloam This is a pool or a small pond, in an oblong form, at the lower end of the Valley of Jehoshaphat, overlooked by the wall of Mount Zion. Its sides are built up with stones, and a column stands in its middle, indicating that a chapel was once built over it. It is in length fifty-four feet, by eighteen in breadth. It is fed, probably, by water from the... read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:8

8. He that sat and begged The notoriety of his case explains how it was that the apostles knew him to be born blind. John 9:2. read more

Daniel Whedon

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:8-12

Excitement among neighbours, John 9:8-12. So great a cure upon so well-known a case could not fail to startle the immediate residents of the locality. The scenes and dialogues that follow are so natural that they cannot but be true. The character of the restored man is developed in the most exquisite manner by his own words. His native shrewdness and firmness of convictions against captious cavils, his rational faith in, and confiding fidelity to, his restorer, appear in beautiful succession.... read more

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:1

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:1-41

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:2

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:3

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:4

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:5

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:6

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:7

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:8

Whedon's Commentary on the Bible - John 9:8-12

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