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The NET Bible®

John 9:26

Then they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?"

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Confession;   Converts;   Faith;   Sabbath;  

Dictionaries:

- Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Pharisees;   Charles Buck Theological Dictionary - Holy Ghost;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Gabriel;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Beggar;   Error;   Nationality;   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Silence;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sabbath;  

Parallel Translations

Christian Standard Bible®
Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
King James Version (1611)
Then saide they to him againe, What did he to thee? How opened hee thine eyes?
King James Version
Then said they to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
English Standard Version
They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
New American Standard Bible
So they said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?"
New Century Version
They asked, "What did he do to you? How did he make you see again?"
Amplified Bible
So they said to him, "What did He [actually] do to you? How did He open your eyes?"
New American Standard Bible (1995)
So they said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?"
Legacy Standard Bible
So they said to him, "What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?"
Berean Standard Bible
"What did He do to you?" they asked. "How did He open your eyes?"
Contemporary English Version
"What did he do to you?" the Jewish leaders asked. "How did he heal your eyes?"
Complete Jewish Bible
So they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
Darby Translation
And they said to him again, What did he do to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
Easy-to-Read Version
They asked, "What did he do to you? How did he heal your eyes?"
Geneva Bible (1587)
Then sayd they to him againe, What did he to thee? howe opened he thine eyes?
George Lamsa Translation
They said to him again, What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?
Good News Translation
"What did he do to you?" they asked. "How did he cure you of your blindness?"
Lexham English Bible
So they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
Literal Translation
And they said to him again, What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?
American Standard Version
They said therefore unto him, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
Bible in Basic English
Then they said to him, What did he do to you? how did he give you the use of your eyes?
Hebrew Names Version
They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
International Standard Version
Then they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
Etheridge Translation
They say to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he to thee thine eyes ?
Murdock Translation
They said to him again: What did he to thee? How did he open thy eyes?
Bishop's Bible (1568)
Then sayde they to hym agayne: What dyd he to thee? Howe opened he thyne eyes?
English Revised Version
They said therefore unto him, What did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes?
World English Bible
They said to him again, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
Wesley's New Testament (1755)
They said to him again, What did he to thee?
Weymouth's New Testament
"What did he do to you?" they asked; "how did he open your eyes?"
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Therfor thei seiden to hym, What dide he to thee? hou openyde he thin iyen?
Update Bible Version
They said therefore to him, What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?
Webster's Bible Translation
Then they said to him again, What did he to thee? how opened he thy eyes?
New King James Version
Then they said to him again, "What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?"
New Living Translation
"But what did he do?" they asked. "How did he heal you?"
New Life Bible
They asked him again, "What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?"
New Revised Standard
They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
They said, therefore, unto him - What did he unto thee? How opened he thine eyes?
Douay-Rheims Bible
They said then to him: What did he to thee? How did he open thy eyes?
Revised Standard Version
They said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
Tyndale New Testament (1525)
Then sayde they to him agayne. What dyd he to the? How opened he thyne eyes?
Young's Literal Translation
And they said to him again, `What did he to thee? how did he open thine eyes?'
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The sayde they vnto him agayne: What dyd he vnto the? How opened he thine eyes?
Mace New Testament (1729)
they still urg'd the same question, what did he do to thee? how did he make you see?
THE MESSAGE
They said, "What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?"
Simplified Cowboy Version
They asked him, "Then what did he do? How did you get your sight back?"

Contextual Overview

13 They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees. 14 (Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.) 15 So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, "He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see." 16 Then some of the Pharisees began to say, "This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath." But others said, "How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?" Thus there was a division among them. 17 So again they asked the man who used to be blind, "What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?" "He is a prophet," the man replied. 18 Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see. 19 They asked the parents, "Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?" 20 So his parents replied, "We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21 But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself." 22 (His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Reciprocal: Proverbs 26:5 - a fool Jeremiah 36:17 - Tell Luke 6:7 - watched John 9:10 - General John 9:15 - the Pharisees

Cross-References

Genesis 9:1
Then God blessed Noah and his sons and said to them, "Be fruitful and multiply and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:3
You may eat any moving thing that lives. As I gave you the green plants, I now give you everything.
Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature that is with you, including the birds, the domestic animals, and every living creature of the earth with you, all those that came out of the ark with you—every living creature of the earth.
Genesis 9:23
Shem and Japheth took the garment and placed it on their shoulders. Then they walked in backwards and covered up their father's nakedness. Their faces were turned the other way so they did not see their father's nakedness.
Genesis 9:26
He also said, "Worthy of praise is the Lord , the God of Shem! May Canaan be the slave of Shem!
Genesis 27:37
Isaac replied to Esau, "Look! I have made him lord over you. I have made all his relatives his servants and provided him with grain and new wine. What is left that I can do for you, my son?"
Genesis 27:40
You will live by your sword but you will serve your brother. When you grow restless, you will tear off his yoke from your neck."
Deuteronomy 33:26
There is no one like God, O Jeshurun, who rides through the sky to help you, on the clouds in majesty.
Psalms 144:15
How blessed are the people who experience these things! How blessed are the people whose God is the Lord !
Romans 9:5
To them belong the patriarchs, and from them, by human descent, came the Christ, who is God over all, blessed forever! Amen.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then said they to him again,.... Finding they could not bring him to deny the fact, or cause him to entertain an ill opinion of him that did it, they examine him again about the manner of it:

what did he to thee? how opened he thine eyes? These questions they had put before, John 9:15, and propose them again, in hope he would vary in the account, which they would not fail of improving against him; or that it would appear that he had not been really blind, at least from his birth; or that Christ made use of some unlawful means, as magic art, which they were always ready to charge him with, and to impute his miracles to a diabolical familiarity and influence; and they would have been glad to have had something to support such a calumny.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

How opened he thine eyes? - The reason why they asked this so often was doubtless to attempt to draw him into a contradiction; either to intimidate him, or throw him off his guard, so that he might be detected in denying what he had before affirmed. But God gave to this poor man grace and strength to make a bold confession of the truth, and sufficient common sense completely to confound his proud and subtle examiners.


 
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