Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
Are we blind also?—We, the constituted, recognized guides of the people in spiritual things? pride and rage prompting the question.
Jesus said—perhaps at the same time, but after a crowd, including some of the skeptical and scornful rulers, had, on seeing Jesus talking with the healed youth, hastened to the spot.
that they which see not might see, etc.—rising to that sight of which the natural vision communicated to the youth was but the symbol. (See on John 9:5, and compare Luke 4:18).
that they which see might be made blind—judicially incapable of apprehending and receiving the truth, to which they have wilfully shut their eyes.
Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 9:40:
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