John 9:38

John 9:38

36 He answered and said, “Who is He, Lord, that I may believe in Him?”

37 And Jesus said to him, “You have both seen Him and ^ait is He who is talking with you.”

38 Then he said, “Lord, I believe!” And he ^aworshiped Him.

39 And Jesus said, ^a“For judgment I have come into this world, ^bthat those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”

40 Then some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard these words, ^aand said to Him, “Are we blind also?”

41 Jesus said to them, ^a“If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, ‘We see.’ Therefore your sin remains.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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he said, Lord, I believe: and he worshipped him—a faith and a worship, beyond doubt, meant to express far more than he would think proper to any human "prophet" (John 9:17) —the unstudied, resistless expression, probably of SUPREME faith and adoration, though without the full understanding of what that implied.

John 9:35-38

Jesus heard—that is, by intelligence brought Him.

that they had cast him out; and when he had found him—by accident? Not very likely. Sympathy in that breast could not long keep aloof from its object.

he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God?—A question stretching purposely beyond his present attainments, in order the more quickly to lead him—in his present teachable frame—into the highest truth.

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