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John 9:7
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5 As long as I am in the world, aI am the light of the world.”  
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.
Commentaries:
Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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John 9:7

Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, . . . Sent, etc.—(See II Kings 5:10, II Kings 5:14). As the prescribed action was purely symbolical in its design, so in connection with it the Evangelist notices the symbolical name of the pool as in this case bearing testimony to him who was sent to do what it only symbolized. (See Isaiah 8:6, where this same pool is used figuratively to denote "the streams that make glad the city of God," and which, humble though they be, betoken a present God of Israel.)



John 9:6-7

he spat on the ground, and made clay . . . and he anointed the eyes of the blind man—These operations were not so incongruous in their nature as might appear, though it were absurd to imagine that they contributed in the least degree to the effect which followed. (See Mark 6:13 and see on John 7:33.)




Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing John 9:7:

Isaiah 7:3
Isaiah 8:6

 

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