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Green's Literal Translation

John 9:26

And they said to him again, What did He do to you? How did He open your eyes?

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?"
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 English Translation
Then they said to him, "What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?"
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 him to the Pharisees, the one once blind. 14 And it was a sabbath when Jesus made the clay and opened his eyes. 15 Then also the Pharisees again asked him how he saw anew. And he said to them, He put clay on my eyes, and I washed, and I see. 16 Then some of the Pharisees said, This man is not from God, because He does not keep the sabbath. Others said, How can a man, a sinner, do such miraculous signs? And there was a division among them. 17 They said to the blind one again, What do you say about Him, because He opened your eyes? And he said, He is a prophet. 18 Then the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he was blind and saw anew, until they called the parents of him seeing anew. 19 And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, whom you say that he was born blind? Then how does he now see? 20 His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind. 21 But how he now sees, we do not know; or who opened his eyes, we do not know. He is of age, ask him. He will speak about himself. 22 His parents said these things because they feared the Jews; for the Jews had already agreed that if anyone should confess Him as Christ, he would be expelled from 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
And God blessed Noah and his sons. And He said to them, Be fruitful and multiply, and fill the earth.
Genesis 9:3
Every creeping thing which is alive shall be food for you. I have given you all things, even as the green plant.
Genesis 9:10
and with every living creature which is with you, among fowl, among cattle, and among every animal of the earth with you, from all that go out from the ark, to every animal of the earth.
Genesis 9:23
And Shem and Japheth took a garment and put it on both their shoulders. And they went backward and covered the nakedness of their father, their faces backward. And they did not see the nakedness of their father.
Genesis 9:26
And he said, Blessed be Jehovah, the God of Shem; and may Canaan be his slave.
Genesis 27:37
And Isaac answered and said to Esau, Behold, I have set him over you as a ruler, and I have given him all his brothers for servants; I have girded him with grain and wine. And what then can I do for you, my son?
Genesis 27:40
and you shall live by your sword, and you shall serve your brother; and when it shall be that you are restless, you shall break his yoke from your neck.
Deuteronomy 33:26
None is like the God of Jeshurun, riding the heavens for your help, and the clouds in His majesty.
Psalms 144:15
Blessed are the peoples that are so; blessed are the peoples whose God is Jehovah!
Romans 9:5
whose are the fathers, and from whom is the Christ according to flesh, He being 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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