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John 9:6
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After he said these things he spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spettle, and he anointed the eyes of the blinde man with the clay,
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
Having said these things, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he anointed the man's eyes with the mud
When He had said this, He spit on the ground, and made mud from the saliva, and applied the mud to his eyes,
After Jesus said this, he spit on the ground and made some mud with it and put the mud on the man's eyes.
When He had said this, He spat on the ground and made mud with His saliva, and He spread the mud [like an ointment] on the man's eyes.
When He had said this, He spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and applied the clay to his eyes,
When He had said this, He spat on the ground, made clay of the saliva, and rubbed the clay on his eyes,
When Jesus had said this, He spat on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man's eyes.
After Jesus said this, he spit on the ground. He made some mud and smeared it on the man's eyes.
Having said this, he spit on the ground, made some mud with the saliva, put the mud on the man's eyes,
Having said these things, he spat on the ground and made mud of the spittle, and put the mud, as ointment, on his eyes.
After Jesus said this, he spit on the dirt, made some mud and put it on the man's eyes.
Assoone as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spettle, and anointed the eyes of the blinde with the clay,
When he said these words, he spat on the ground, and mixed clay with his saliva, and he placed it on the eyes of the blind man.
After he said this, Jesus spat on the ground and made some mud with the spittle; he rubbed the mud on the man's eyes
When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva, and smeared the clay on his eyes.
Saying these things, He spat on the ground and made clay out of the spittle, and anointed clay on the blind one's eyes.
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,
Having said these words, he put earth, mixed with water from his mouth, on the man's eyes,
When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,
After saying this, he spit on the ground and made mud with the saliva. Then he spread the mud on the man's eyesMark 7:33; 8:23;">[xr]
And when he had said these things, he spat upon the ground, and formed clay from his spittle, and rubbed upon the eyes of the blind,
And having spoken thus, he spit on the ground, and made mud with the spittle, and spread it on the eyes of the blind man;
Assoone as he had thus spoke, he spat on the grounde, and made claye of the spittle, and he annoynted with the claye the eyes of the blynde,
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,
When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man's eyes with the mud,
he spit on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
After thus speaking, He spat on the ground, and then, kneading the dust and spittle into clay, He smeared the clay over the man's eyes and said to him,
Whanne he hadde seid these thingis, he spette in to the erthe, and made cley of the spotil, and anoyntide the cley on hise iyen,
When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,
When he had thus spoken, he spit on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man's eyes
When He had said these things, He spat on the ground and made clay with the saliva; and He anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay.
Then he spit on the ground, made mud with the saliva, and spread the mud over the blind man's eyes.
After Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground. He mixed it with dust and put that mud on the eyes of the blind man.
When he had said this, he spat on the ground and made mud with the saliva and spread the mud on the man's eyes,
These things, having said, he spat on the ground, and made clay with the spittle, and laid the clay upon his eyes;
When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes,
As he said this, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and anointed the man's eyes with the clay,
Assone as he had thus spoken he spate on the grounde and made claye of the spetle and rubbed the claye on the eyes of the blynde
These things saying, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and rubbed the clay on the eyes of the blind man, and said to him,
Whan he had thus sayde, he spat on the grounde, and made claye of the spetle, and rubbed the claye on the eyes of the blynde,
having said this, he spit on the ground, which by means of his saliva he made into clay, wherewith he anointed the eyes of the blind man,
After this, Jesus spat on the ground and made a little mud. He put the mud on that blind fellow's eyes
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
he spat: Mark 7:33, Mark 8:23, Revelation 3:18, anointed the eyes of the blind with the clay, or, spread the clay upon the eyes of the blind man
Reciprocal: Joshua 6:12 - the priests 2 Samuel 5:23 - fetch 2 Kings 2:21 - cast 2 Kings 4:41 - he cast 2 Kings 6:6 - he cut down 1 Chronicles 14:14 - turn away Isaiah 38:21 - For Isaiah Matthew 9:29 - touched Matthew 20:34 - touched John 9:11 - A man John 10:21 - Can John 11:37 - Could
Cross-References
This is the family tree of the human race: When God created the human race, he made it godlike, with a nature akin to God. He created both male and female and blessed them, the whole human race.
"But your own lifeblood I will avenge; I will avenge it against both animals and other humans.
Whoever sheds human blood, by humans let his blood be shed, Because God made humans in his image reflecting God's very nature. You're here to bear fruit, reproduce, lavish life on the Earth, live bountifully!"
God continued, "This is the sign of the covenant I am making between me and you and everything living around you and everyone living after you. I'm putting my rainbow in the clouds, a sign of the covenant between me and the Earth. From now on, when I form a cloud over the Earth and the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll remember my covenant between me and you and everything living, that never again will floodwaters destroy all life. When the rainbow appears in the cloud, I'll see it and remember the eternal covenant between God and everything living, every last living creature on Earth."
Noah lived another 350 years following the flood. He lived a total of 950 years. And he died.
"Anyone who hits and kills a fellow human must be put to death. Anyone who kills someone's animal must make it good—a life for a life. Anyone who injures his neighbor will get back the same as he gave: fracture for fracture, eye for eye, tooth for tooth. What he did to hurt that person will be done to him. Anyone who hits and kills an animal must make it good, but whoever hits and kills a fellow human will be put to death. And no double standards: the same rule goes for foreigners and natives. I am God , your God."
"Don't pollute the land in which you live. Murder pollutes the land. The land can't be cleaned up of the blood of murder except through the blood of the murderer.
You're the One I've violated, and you've seen it all, seen the full extent of my evil. You have all the facts before you; whatever you decide about me is fair. I've been out of step with you for a long time, in the wrong since before I was born. What you're after is truth from the inside out. Enter me, then; conceive a new, true life.
Jesus said, "Put your sword back where it belongs. All who use swords are destroyed by swords. Don't you realize that I am able right now to call to my Father, and twelve companies—more, if I want them—of fighting angels would be here, battle-ready? But if I did that, how would the Scriptures come true that say this is the way it has to be?"
To Be a Responsible Citizen Be a good citizen. All governments are under God. Insofar as there is peace and order, it's God's order. So live responsibly as a citizen. If you're irresponsible to the state, then you're irresponsible with God, and God will hold you responsible. Duly constituted authorities are only a threat if you're trying to get by with something. Decent citizens should have nothing to fear. Do you want to be on good terms with the government? Be a responsible citizen and you'll get on just fine, the government working to your advantage. But if you're breaking the rules right and left, watch out. The police aren't there just to be admired in their uniforms. God also has an interest in keeping order, and he uses them to do it. That's why you must live responsibly—not just to avoid punishment but also because it's the right way to live. That's also why you pay taxes—so that an orderly way of life can be maintained. Fulfill your obligations as a citizen. Pay your taxes, pay your bills, respect your leaders. Don't run up debts, except for the huge debt of love you owe each other. When you love others, you complete what the law has been after all along. The law code—don't sleep with another person's spouse, don't take someone's life, don't take what isn't yours, don't always be wanting what you don't have, and any other "don't" you can think of—finally adds up to this: Love other people as well as you do yourself. You can't go wrong when you love others. When you add up everything in the law code, the sum total is love. But make sure that you don't get so absorbed and exhausted in taking care of all your day-by-day obligations that you lose track of the time and doze off, oblivious to God. The night is about over, dawn is about to break. Be up and awake to what God is doing! God is putting the finishing touches on the salvation work he began when we first believed. We can't afford to waste a minute, must not squander these precious daylight hours in frivolity and indulgence, in sleeping around and dissipation, in bickering and grabbing everything in sight. Get out of bed and get dressed! Don't loiter and linger, waiting until the very last minute. Dress yourselves in Christ, and be up and about!
Gill's Notes on the Bible
And when he had thus spoken,.... In answer to the disciples' question, and declaring his own work and office in the world, and the necessity he was under of performing it:
he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle; the Misnic doctors speak c of טיט נרוק, "clay that is spitted", or "spittle clay", which their commentators say d was a weak, thin clay, like spittle or water; but this here was properly spittle clay, or clay made of spittle, for want of water; or it may be rather, through choice Christ spat upon the dust of the earth, and worked it together into a consistence, like clay:
and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay; however, spittle, especially fasting spittle, might be thought proper in some disorder of the eyes, to be used, as it was by the Jews;
:-; yet clay was a most unlikely means of restoring sight to a man that was born blind, which might be thought rather a means of making a man blind that could see. This may be an emblem of the word of God, the eye salve of the Gospel; which is a very unlikely means in the opinion of a natural man, who counts it foolishness, of enlightening and saving sinners; and yet by this foolishness of preaching God does save those that believe.
c Misn. Mikvaot, c. 7. sect. 1. d Jarchi, Maimon. & Bartenora in ib.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
And made clay ... - Two reasons may be assigned for making this clay, and anointing the eyes with it. One is, that the Jews regarded spittle as medicinal to the eyes when diseased, and that they forbade the use of medicines on the Sabbath. They regarded the Sabbath so strictly that they considered the preparation and use of medicines as contrary to the law. Especially it was particularly forbidden among them to use spittle on that day to heal diseased eyes. See instances in Lightfoot. Jesus, therefore, by making this spittle, showed them that their manner of keeping the day was superstitious, and that he dared to do a thing which they esteemed unlawful. He showed that their interpretation of the law of the Sabbath was contrary to the intention of God, and that his disciples were not bound by their notions of the sacredness of that day. Another reason may have been that it was common for prophets to use some symbolical or expressive action in working miracles. Thus, Elisha commanded his staff to be laid on the face of the child that he was about to restore to life, 2 Kings 4:29. Compare the notes at Isaiah 8:18. In such instances the prophet showed that the miracle was performed by power communicated through him; so, in this case, Jesus by this act showed to the blind man that the power of healing came from him who anointed his eyes. He could not see him, and the act of anointing convinced him of what might have been known without such an act, could he have seen him that Jesus had power to give sight to the blind.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse John 9:6. Anointed the eyes of the blind man — It would be difficult to find out the reason which induced our Lord to act thus. It is certain, this procedure can never be supposed to have been any likely medical means to restore sight to a man who was born blind; this action, therefore, had no tendency to assist the miracle. If his eye-lids had been only so gummed together that they needed nothing but to be suppled and well washed, it is not likely that this could possibly have been omitted from his birth until now. The Jews believed that there was some virtue in spittle to cure the diseases of the eye; but then they always accompanied this with some charm. Our Lord might make clay with the spittle to show that no charms or spells were used, and to draw their attention more particularly to the miracle which he was about to work. Perhaps the best lesson we can learn from this is: That God will do his own work in his own way; and, to hide pride from man, will often accomplish the most beneficial ends by means not only simple or despicable in themselves, but by such also as appear entirely contrary, in their nature and operation, to the end proposed to be effected by them.
