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Yohanes 9:25

Jawabnya: "Apakah orang itu orang berdosa, aku tidak tahu; tetapi satu hal aku tahu, yaitu bahwa aku tadinya buta, dan sekarang dapat melihat."

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Confession;   Converts;   Faith;   Jesus Continued;   Sabbath;   Thompson Chain Reference - Experience (Knowledge Experimental);   Knowledge;   Knowledge, Experimental;   Knowledge-Ignorance;   One Thing;   Torrey's Topical Textbook - Blindness, Spiritual;   Confessing Christ;  

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;   Certainty (2);   Divinity of Christ;   Error;   Excommunication (2);   Nationality;   Physician (2);   The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary - Blindness;   Silence;   Smith Bible Dictionary - Sabbath;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Christianity;  

Parallel Translations

Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Jawabnya: "Apakah orang itu orang berdosa, aku tidak tahu; tetapi satu hal aku tahu, yaitu bahwa aku tadinya buta, dan sekarang dapat melihat."
Alkitab Terjemahan Lama
Lalu sahutnya, "Entahkan Ia seorang berdosa tiadalah aku tahu, hanya satu perkara aku tahu: Bahwa dahulu aku buta, dan sekarang aku nampak."

Contextual Overview

13 They brought to the pharisees, hym that a litle before was blynde. 14 And it was the Sabboth day when Iesus made ye claye, & opened his eyes. 15 Then againe the pharisees also asked hym, howe he had receaued his syght. He sayde vnto them: He put claye vpon myne eyes, and I washed, and do see. 16 Therfore sayde some of the pharisees, this man is not of God, because he kepeth not the Sabboth day. Other said: How can a man that is a sinner do such miracles? And there was a stryfe among them. 17 They spake vnto the blynde man againe: What sayest thou of him, because he hath opened thyne eyes? He sayde, he is a prophete. 18 But the Iewes dyd not beleue the man, howe that he had ben blynde, and receaued his syght, vntyll they called the father and mother of hym that had receaued his syght: 19 And they asked them, saying: Is this your sonne, whom ye saye was borne blynde? Howe doeth he nowe see then? 20 His father & mother aunswered them, and sayde: We knowe that this is our sonne, and that he was borne blynde: 21 But by what meanes he now seeth, we can not tell: Or who hath opened his eyes, can not we tell. He is olde inough, aske him, let him aunswere for himselfe. 22 Such wordes spake his father & mother, because they feared the Iewes: For the Iewes had decreed alredy, that yf any man dyd confesse that he was Christe, he shoulde be excommunicate out of the synagogue.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

one: John 9:30, John 5:11, 1 John 5:10

Reciprocal: Song of Solomon 8:1 - I would John 5:15 - which John 9:39 - that they

Cross-References

Genesis 3:14
And the lord god said vnto ye serpent: Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed aboue all cattel, and aboue euery beast of the fielde: vpon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eate all the dayes of thy lyfe.
Genesis 4:11
And nowe art thou cursed from the earth, which hath opened her mouth to receaue thy brothers blood from thy hande.
Genesis 9:7
But be fruitefull, and multiplie you, breede in the earth, and increase therein.
Genesis 9:8
God spake also vnto Noah, & to his sonnes with hym, saying:
Genesis 9:20
Noah also began to be an husbandman, and planted a vineyarde.
Genesis 9:21
And he drynkyng of the wyne, was dronken, and vncouered within his tent.
Genesis 9:22
And Ham the father of Chanaan, seeyng the nakednesse of his father, tolde his two brethren without.
Genesis 9:28
Noah liued after the fludde three hundred and fiftie yeres.
Genesis 49:7
Cursed be their wrath, for it was shamelesse, and their fiercenesse, for it was cruell: I wyll deuide them in Iacob, and scatter them in Israel.
Deuteronomy 27:16
Cursed be he that curseth his father and his mother: and all the people shall say, Amen.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

He answered and said,.... That is, the man who had been blind, who takes no notice of the confession they pressed him to, which is what he could not do; there being no collusion in this case, he only replies to the reproachful character they had given of his benefactor.

Whether he be a sinner or not, I know not: or "if he is a sinner I know not", as the Vulgate Latin version renders it, suggesting that he did not know he was a sinner; he could not charge him with being one; nor could he join with them in saying he was a sinner; nor did he think and believe he was: however, he was sure he had done a good thing to him, and in that he was no sinner; and what proof they had of his being one he could not tell: and be that as it will, adds he,

one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see; as if he should say, whatever charges you bring against the person that has done me this favour, which I am not able to answer to, you cannot reason me out of this; this I am sure of, that once I had no eyes to see with, and now I have, and that by the means of this man you reproach. And so it is with persons enlightened in a spiritual sense, whatever things they may be ignorant of, though they may not know the exact time of their conversion, nor have so much Gospel light and knowledge as others, or be so capable of expressing themselves, or giving such a distinct and orderly account of the work of God upon them as some can, nor dispute with an adversary for the truths of the Gospel, or have that faith of assurance, and discoveries of God's love, and the application of such great and precious promises as others have; yet this they know, that they were once blind, as to the knowledge of spiritual things, as to a saving knowledge of God in Christ, as to a true sight and sense of themselves, their sins and lost estate, as to the way of righteousness and salvation by Christ, or the work of the Spirit of God upon their souls, or as to any true and spiritual discerning of the Scriptures, and the doctrines of grace in them: but now they are comfortably assured, they see the exceeding sinfulness of sin, the plague of their own hearts, the insufficiency of their righteousness to justify them before God, and the beauty, fulness, suitableness, and ability of Christ as a Saviour; and that their salvation is, and must be of free grace; and that they see the truths of the Gospel in another light than they did before, and have some glimpse of eternal glory and happiness, in the hope of which they rejoice.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not - The man had just said that he believed Jesus to be a prophet, John 9:17. By his saying that he did not know whether he was a sinner may be meant that though he might be a prophet, yet that he might not be perfect; or that it did not become him, being an obscure and unlearned man, to attempt to determine that question. What follows shows that he did not believe that he was a sinner, and these words were probably spoken in irony to deride the Pharisees. They were perverse and full of cavils, and were determined not to believe. The man reminded them that the question was not whether Jesus was a sinner; that, though that might be, yet it did not settle the other question about opening his eyes, which was the chief point of the inquiry.

One thing I know ... - About this he could have no doubt. He disregarded, therefore, their cavils. We may learn, also, here:

  1. That this declaration may be made by every converted sinner. He may not be able to meet the cavils of others. He may not be able to tell how he was converted. It is enough if he can say, “I was a sinner, but now love God; I was in darkness, but have now been brought to the light of truth.”
  2. We should not be ashamed of the fact that we are made to see by the Son of God. No cavil or derision of men should deter us from such an avowal.
  3. Sinners are perpetually shifting the real point of inquiry. They do not inquire into the facts. They assume that a thing cannot be true, and then argue as if that was a conceded point. The proper way in religion is first to inquire into the facts, and then account for them as we can.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 25. Whereas I was blind, now I see. — He pays no attention to their cavils, nor to their perversion of justice; but, in the simplicity of his heart, speaks to the fact, of the reality of which he was ready to give them the most substantial evidence.


 
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