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6 When He had said these things, aHe spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.  
7 And He said to him, “Go, wash ain the pool of Siloam” (which is translated, Sent). So bhe went and washed, and came back seeing.  
8 Therefore the neighbors and those who previously had seen that he was1 blind said, “Is not this he who sat and begged?”  
9 Some said, “This is he.” Others said,1 “He is like him.” He said, “I am he.”  
10 Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
11 He answered and said, a“A Man called Jesus made clay and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to1 the pool of Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received sight.”  
12 Then they said to him, “Where is He?” He said, “I do not know.”

The Pharisees Excommunicate the Healed Man

13 They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees.
14 Now it was a Sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes.
15 Then the Pharisees also asked him again how he had received his sight. He said to them, “He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
16 Therefore some of the Pharisees said, “This Man is not from God, because He does not1 keep the Sabbath.” Others said, a“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And bthere was a division among them.  
17 They said to the blind man again, “What do you say about Him because He opened your eyes?” He said, a“He is a prophet.”  
18 But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind and received his sight, until they called the parents of him who had received his sight.
19 And they asked them, saying, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?”
Commentaries:
Adam Clarke
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John 9:8

That he was blind - ̔ : but, instead of this, , when he begged, or was a beggar, is the reading of ABC*DKL, seven others, both the Syriac, both the Arabic, later Persic, Coptic, Ethiopic, Armenian, Sahidic, Gothic, Slavonic, Vulgate, eight copies of the Itala, and some of the primitive fathers. This is in all probability the true reading, and is received by Griesbach into the text.

Beggars in all countries have a language peculiar to themselves. The language of the Jewish beggars was the following: Deserve something by me - Give me something that God may reward you. O ye tender-hearted, do yourselves good by me. Another form, which seems to have been used by such as had formerly been in better circumstances, was this: Look back and see what I have been; look upon me now, and see what I am. See Lightfoot.




Other Adam Clarke entries containing John 9:8:

John 9:1
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