what does john 9:35 mean

Thirty-four, thirty-five (Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah) VERSE 3 Oh yeah, yeah Baby, you might need a seatbelt when I ride it I'ma leave it open like a door, come inside it Even though I'm wifey, you can hit it like a side chick Don't need no side dick, no Got the neighbors yellin' "Earthquake!" (Earthquake) 4.5 when I make the bed shake Some Jews believed that diseases and physical disabilities were the result of either a persons own sins or the sins of the persons parents. It is he who sitteth upon the throne who saith, "Behold, I make all things new!" If we apply this to the opening of the eyes of the mind, it intimates that spiritual sight is given principally for this end, that we may see Christ, 2 Corinthians 4:6. (2.) Judah found a text to support this view. The hope of the Jews is the manifestation of Christ's glory here below and by-and-by. How little can any of us speak of it as our habitual unbroken portion! Undoubtedly Jesus had broken the Sabbath law, as the scribes had worked it out, and done so in fact in three different ways. Matthew 9:35 tells us what Jesus did and verse 36 tells us why He was compassionate. He looked for that day of Christ's appearing in glory, and he "saw it, and was glad." It was an open air basin twenty by thirty feet. Day was while He was present with them. The power of life and death must rest with God alone. He says, "My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me: and I give unto them eternal life; and they shall never perish, neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." And, he bowed before Him in worship. It is simply this: they cannot rest without the voice of Christ; and that which is not the voice of Christ they do not follow. They should die in their sins; and whither He went, they could not come. "for"Jesus: knowing where he was, went to the very place, and found him in As Chrysostom put it: "The Jews cast him out of the Temple; the Lord of the Temple found him." Spittle, and especially the spittle of some distinguished person, was believed to possess certain curative qualities. In the chapter preceding our text at the 54th verse, we read that Jesus said to the Jews, "If I honor myself, my honor is nothing: it is my Father that honoureth me; of whom ye say, that he is your God." (i) Jesus looked for the man. That is, it was to give them a part with Him outside the world. "And the sheep hear his voice." 9:17-34 Now the Jews refused to believe that he had been blind and had become able to see, until they called the parents of the man who had become able to see, and asked them: "Is this your son? The teaching of Plato which, of course, is also the teaching of the Mormons, that we all preexisted as spirits in the heavenly king . I am thoroughly, essentially what I also speak. 1:4). There were two kinds of excommunication. So the Pharisees began with suspicion. By way of contrast, Jesus says of himself, "I came that (the sheep) may have life, and may have it abundantly" (10:10b). The Lord Jesus Christ tells Nicodemus that every Jew must be "born again" (John 3:3,5). And He said to him, "Go, wash in the pool of Siloam" (which is translated, Sent). He was the way to the Father, and therefore they ought to have known. Then the sense of what was coming was realized by His spirit before the actual fact. Our Lord did not go there without feeling the past and present and future: the atoning work is not the same as the anguish of being cast off by His people, and the utter weakness of the disciples. For how could he believe in one of whom he had not heard; the work of ministers is to tell us who the Son of God is, that we may believe on him, John 20:31; John 20:31. Note, True faith will show itself in a humble adoration of the Lord Jesus. And He said, "And that man went to his house justified because God heard his prayer. We know that God does not hear sinners. His neighbors would have shunned him out of fear of having the religious police target them. So there is nothing better for us than to be at a very great distance from the enemies of the Gospel, that Christ may approach nearer to us. by Merrill Tenney, 4:203, 5:485-486). So, who was created to glorify God? What He utters in speech is what He is. (Verses John 8:12-20). Others knew they were blind and in the darkness of sin, but when they turned to Jesus they saw the light of God. Only a divine person could thus put and keep everything in its due place; only a divine person could act in perfect grace, but at the same time maintain immaculate holiness, and so much the more because it was in One full of grace. John 1:49.) It was accidently discovered by two boys who were wading in the pool. It was the Sabbath day on which Jesus had made the clay and healed the man. Go on speaking your word, that is, Christ's word spoken by you, for this is how to win souls for him. 8-12 ***** John 9:4 ON TIME . Note, The Greatest comfort of bodily eyesight is its serviceableness to our faith and the interests of our souls. bodies were given to us that we might go through this trial period on the earth to find out whether or not we will discover the truth of Mormonism, and thus, could be elevated to godhood in the next world and have our own little planet and our own little system and go on as gods. And the servant abideth not in the house for ever: but the Son abideth ever. Lipscomb's Commentary on Selected NT Books. No doubt His own resurrection was the most astonishing instance of it; but His raising of dead persons in His ministry was a witness also, as the resurrection of His saints by-and-by will be the display of it. Take care that your reverence and adoration are not given, in any degree, to the church, or to any person in it, or to any priest, or minister, or anything created or made; but worship God, and God in Christ Jesus; and the Lord bless you, beloved, for his name's sake! Many of the rulers in Jerusalem really believed in Jesus, but were afraid to say so "lest they should be put out of the synagogue" ( John 12:42). "Yes, sir, I know, but " and down he runs into another hole. (ii) He went on to call Jesus a prophet. The Pharisees are typical of the people in every generation who condemn anyone whose idea of religion is not theirs. No doubt the man's thoughts were running on these things when he said that in his opinion Jesus was a prophet. He said: "He is a prophet.". But here was the light of God shining full on their sinful condition, as well as on the law. The Lord intimates, first of all, that He was not going to display Himself now as a Jewish Messiah, visible to the world; but as they believed in God, so they were to believe in Him. Then the Lord declares the issues of His coming. In every respect the sense of the Holy Ghost is enfeebled, changed, and even destroyed in the common version. John 9:30-34 God Does Not Hear Sinners. When they saw him, they used the opportunity to put to Jesus a problem with which Jewish thought had always been deeply concerned, and which is still a problem. It seems undeniable, that not only was the power of God exhibited in those miracles, but that they afforded opportunity for the depth of His feelings to display itself, who had before Him the creature as God made it, and the deplorable havoc sin had wrought. So, "when he heard that he was sick, he abode two days still in the same place where he was. He went ahead and healed the man, to do the works of the Father, but His answer to the question was neither.Now, I do not believe that it is proper to interpret this that God allowed this man this period of blindness just in order that Christ might do a work in him. That wrath abides even now upon him if the life of God is not in him. But if I do, though ye believe not me, believe the works: that ye may know, and believe, that the Father is in me, and I in him." This would be met by a manifestation of Jesus to the soul, such as the world knows nothing of. What a living picture of the new witness for Christ! John 9:36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? At this point, he may not have fully understood that Jesus was God manifest in the flesh. Hence, what a memorable moment it was for this man when he worshipped Christ! Now, what right has the Received Text to be thus ranged? Why this place, of all others, should have been selected, will be no difficulty to those who feel with me; but, on the contrary, in my judgment, it refutes the "desperate resource" (as it is even allowed to be, strange to say, by those who adopt it), that the evangelist may have in this solitary case incorporated a portion of the current oral tradition into his narrative, which was afterwards variously corrected from the gospel to the Hebrews, or other traditional sources, and from different diction put in at the end ofLuke 21:1-38; Luke 21:1-38, or elsewhere. If you keep on rejecting His gracious offer of salvation, you may keep on hearing without understanding and keep on seeing without perceiving. It was the light of God cast on their thoughts, words, and life. No one would suffer like this unless he were an evil person." And he calleth his own sheep by name, and leadeth them out" an evident allusion to what had befallen the blind man. Not very likely. It was as if he said: "I am bound to believe in him, I am bound to stand by him because of all that he has done for me." There could be some excuse for those who were blind through ignorance, but there could be only condemnation for those who claimed to have knowledge but deliberately rejected the plain evidence before them (John 9:39-41). A man might not cut his finger nails or pull out a hair of his head or his beard. The writers of the other gospels had a different point of view; and regarded them as a demonstration of the compassion of Jesus. The more the man argued with them, the angrier the Pharisees became. Jesus is in the business of opening blind eyes. Close by, there is all that is needed to bind up their wounds, and plenty of it; then, why do they lie there in agony? So why would that phrase be a distinction? Of the five verses you referred to in your Question, I believ. Actually it violated two Sabbath laws. In Acts we twice hear of people who had been helpless from their birth (the lame man at the Beautiful Gate of the Temple in Acts 3:2, and the cripple at Lystra in Acts 14:8), but this is the only man in the gospel story who had been so afflicted. The comfortable converse Christ had with him, wherein he brings him acquainted with the consolation of Israel. man had not done as yet, only had said he was a prophet, and that The Holy Ghost would be not a passing visitor on the earth, even as the Son who had been with them for a season. We must do the works of him who sent me while day lasts; the night is coming when no man is able to work. Of course, the man who was born blind had no problem admitting that he could not see. He says that it is a sovereign preservative against the poison of serpents; a protection against epilepsy; that lichens and leprous spots can be cured by the application of fasting spittle; that ophthalmia can be cured by anointing the eyes every morning with fasting spittle; that carcinomata and crick in the neck can be cured by the use of spittle. Take the fact, that this is eked out by putting the Received Text as one; the text of D (or Beza's Cambridge Uncial) as another; and that of most of the MSS. Our Lord does not refer to what He had said at or from any starting-point, but to what He speaks always, as then also. This was the effect of the presence of God's Son in this world. There is in Glasgow a sundial with the motto: "Tak' tent of time ere time be tint." And some of them were good spirits and some of them were bad spirits. What did Jesus mean when He said, "I am the Bread of Life" (John 6:35)? If we are cast out from that assembly in which Christ reigns, it is a dreadful judgment which is executed against us, that we are delivered to Satan, (1 Corinthians 5:5,) because we are banished from the kingdom of the Son of God. Both the truth and the word were not in them. How blessedly grace operates in, and judges of, a hopeless case! And there was a division of opinion among them. There was no reception of the light of God. The man goes his way, washes, and comes seeing. The Highest alone can accomplish it; has he not said of himself, "I kill, and I make alive"? The water supply of Jerusalem had always been precarious in the event of a siege. When they continued to ask, and He lifted Himself up and spoke to them those memorable words, He again stoops, that they might weigh them in their consciences. This supposes the Holy Ghost given. Surely there is no real contradiction here. But men preexisted as spirits waiting for bodies. And he says, "A little bit, men look like trees walking around, you know it's very fuzzy." THERE IS POWER IN CHRIST - Vss. None of them hindered the Lord from taking on His spirit the sense of death as no one else did. . In Jesus there was nothing but perfect light. Shakespeare makes Mark Antony say of Brutus: So mix'd in him that Nature might stand up, And say to all the world, 'This was a man!'". When I have dug him out of that, and fancied I should surely catch him, he says, "Oh, yes! He says, "I am the light of the world." But if received, it is not merely that I have the truth, so to speak, as an expression of His mind, but of Himself of His person. It stands apart in a lone, simple majesty, utterly inimitable, absolutely perfect. How sweetly doth faith, sometimes, come up from the wilderness, leaning upon her Beloved, and owning to him that she is his, and he is hers! And this a waif tossed haphazard on the broken coast of our gospel! Otherwise, he would have said: But he doesn't. "And seeing the multitudes, He felt compassion for them, because they were distressed and downcast like sheep without a shepherd." The feelings that arose in Jesus as He saw the people were strong. As man becomes more hardened in unbelief, Christ becomes more pointed and plain in the assertion of the truth. There is no salvation for such as abide outside Christ. (iii) Finally the blind man came to confess that Jesus was the Son of God He came to see that human categories were not adequate to describe him. The story concludes by contrasting the blind mans faith with the hard hearts of the unbelieving Pharisees. On the contrary, this is just what proves the measure of our spirituality; and the more we go through the matter with God, the power and blessing are so much the greater; so that when the trial comes, it might appear to an outside observer as if all was perfect calmness, and so indeed it is, or should be; and this because all has been out between ourselves and God. He therefore healed the man, and immediately there was much interest among the local people. In 9:36, the blind man does not yet know Jesus as Lord, so it should be translated, sir. In 9:38, he recognizes Jesus as the Lord who opened his eyes, so there it should be translated, Lord.). And this effect it had, as appears by what follows. not by chance, meeting him at an unawares, but seeking him; and When they were confronted with such an argument, see what they did. #1 "Then Jesus declared,". That's the answer. He says so. (i) Some of them had the strange notion of prenatal sin. in the Son of God, it was no matter in what situation he was Such was the aim of His heart, at all cost to Himself; but the effect was moral in one way or the other, and this now. And they said unto him again, What did he do to you? Its insertion in some of the MSS. But the argument does show us that the idea of prenatal sin was known. Oh, that we had multitudes who would do this, and that all God's people were constantly looking out for opportunities of making a personal application of the truth to those who hear it! Jesus heard that they had cast him out Had excommunicated the poor man for his sake; and when he had found him Which it appears he did soon after; he said unto him, privately, Dost thou believe on the Son of God The great expected Messiah? So Jesus is either good news or bad news for you, and I assure you, He is no joke! If this man was not of God, he could do nothing. Pry to the very bottom of them; and, better still, ask the Lord to search you, and know your heart, to try you, and know your thoughts, and to lead you in the way everlasting; and be not content till you can truthfully say, "I know whom I have, believed, and am persuaded that he is able to keep that which I have committed unto him." "In my Father's house are many mansions; if it were not so, I would have told you." God, knew it the very instant it was done, and needed not any to Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth." Dost thou believe on the Son of God? Christ was not only the Son of God, but the Son of man. It began by showing that He is so in act; then it opens out that He is so in word. Jesus was asking the man if he trusted in the God-man, though Jesus did not identify Himself as that Man. paw of Satan, and under the power of darkness. And, next, when you are confessing your faith, confess it to Christ himself. The Cross And The Flesh (Gal. To conclude and crown all, as far as their security was concerned, the question is answered as to any hostile power. First, it is the Son present, and the Father known in Him, and He in the Father. Of the wicked man the psalmist says: "May the iniquity of his fathers be remembered before the Lord; and let not the sin of his mother be blotted out" ( Psalms 109:14). Perhaps you have always tried to obey the Bibles teaching and lead a moral life. make report of it to him: and when he had found him: "I am the door: by me if any man enter in, he shall be saved, and shall go in and out, and find pasture." ", To report dead links, typos, or html errors or suggestions about making these resources more useful use the convenient, Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology, Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament, The Hawker's Poor Man's Concordance And Dictionary, International Standard Bible Encyclopedia. He therefore does not scruple to push things to an extremity, to draw out their real character and state most distinctly; to pronounce on them as from beneath, as He Himself from above; to show that there was no resemblance between them and Abraham, but rather Satan, and not the smallest communion in their thoughts with His Father's. So with the man already blind before. (iii) It was quite definitely laid down: "As to fasting spittle, it is not lawful to put it so much as upon the eyelids.". 2. Our Lord Jesus examines his faith: "Dost thou believe on the Son of God? These, then, are the two great truths of the chapter: their future portion with Christ in the Father's house; and, meanwhile, the permanent stay of the Holy Ghost with the disciples, and this, too, as indwelling on the footing of life in Christ risen. I think that is the wrong interpretation and that interpretation comes by the colon instead of a period. So often, when we are conversing with an enquirer, he says, "Yes, sir; I hope I believe." As the former blind man pointed out to the Pharisees (John 9:32-33), Since the beginning of time it has never been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a person born blind. "Absolutely ( ) what I speak." It was not exactly, as Augustine says, "Relicti sunt duo, misera, et misericordia" ( In Jo. Clearly the man who was born blind was in no danger of his life; therefore Jesus broke the Sabbath when he healed him. This proves how his faith had grown. It was natural to anoint the head; but the special thing for the eye of love to discern was the anointing of the feet. * The suspicion that some weak believers or enemies of the faith omitted the section, as the Bishop of Hippo suggests, would expose the passage to be tampered with. His death is in view: what will the sheep do then? But all through the gospel of John Christ is setting aside these thoughts on every side, whether in enquirers outside, or more particularly in disciples, who were under this pernicious influence like other people. Yet, as far as this goes, both women did the same thing. 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 himin his present teachable frameinto the highest truth. Such must ever be for man, for the world, the insuperable difficulty. Nay, brethren, your eyes are at fault; it is a ray of light from Christ, and shines just where it should. But it was at this time, perhaps as he was standing in bewilderment outside the temple precincts, that Jesus found him and asked him the most important question in the world (9:35), "Do you believe in the Son of Man?" (The KJV and NJKV read, "Son of God"; but "Son of Man" is almost certainly the original text.) And thus, this hardship or this difficulty or this painful experience is coming to me as God's judgment upon me because of some wrongdoing. That's where we are as we study John 9:35-41. The Lord declares this in a most distinct manner. In the face of total rejection, and in every point of view, both as the expression of God in the world, and of His working the works of grace in the world, the result was plain. It is almost an affirmation, you surely believe; you (, emphatic) who have born such bold testimony to me that they have cast you out. When asked his opinion of Jesus in view of the fact that he had given him his sight, his answer was: "He is a prophet" ( John 9:17). Jesus passed off the question saying, "Neither of them, but I must do the work of My Father and in order that I might do the work of the Father that sent Me." Salem Media Group. Then we have the wonderful interview with the sisters; and, finally, our Lord is at the grave, a consciously divine person, the Son of the Father, but in the perfectness of manhood, yet with such deep feeling as Deity alone could produce not only sympathy with sorrow, but, above all, the sense of what death is in this world. that contain the passage in placing it here. (ii) It was forbidden to heal on the Sabbath. "Give the glory to God," they said. This, and more than this, had been abundantly shown by Him already, and in His every act. A staircase of thirty-three rock-cut steps led down to it; and there, from a stone basin, people drew the water. They just have taken up stones to throw at Him because of His claim of deity, "Before Abraham was, I am. We never read any more of this man; but, it is very likely, from henceforth he became a constant follower of Christ. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? No theory is less reasonable than that this can be either a mere floating tradition stuck in here by some chance, or the work of a forger's mind. It is worthy of note that, in the olden time, when the Lord had made many promises to his people, he added, "I will yet for this be enquired of by thee house of Israel, to do it for them; "as though the fulfillment of the promise was delayed until it was asked for. (Verse 4) Higher things might follow in their season, and brighter light suited to them when the day should dawn, and the day-star arise in hearts established with grace. "If, then, thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be full of light." He was the true Light from heaven. "If I do not the works of my Father, believe me not. And the scriptures surely does not confirm that as Biblical truth. It is not only that there is life and salvation in Christ, but there is liberty, in contrast with the law. Such, in brief, was the interior of Bethany. The neighbours were astonished, and questions arise; the Pharisees are stirred but divided (for this miracle, also, was wrought on a sabbath). The Lord, in the centre of the chapter just after this, opens out once more the truth of the world's judgment, and of His cross as the attractive point for all men, as such, in contrast with Jewish expectation. "The night cometh when no man can work." He is seen as the suffering Son of man, who takes the place of humiliation, instead of the kingdom which they wanted to force on Him. Hence, when the Lord hears the call, "Behold, he whom thou lovest is sick" the strongest possible appeal to the heart for acting at once on it He does not go. Answer. He must die. Thus clearly we have in this case the rejection of Jesus viewed, not in open attack on His own person, as in the. John 10:19-30) so our Lord, in the presence of their hatred and still growing enmity (ver. Whatever else is in doubt, there is never any doubt that Jesus was a man among men. (Verse 5). There is no third category. Obviously in the eyes of such a law to make clay was to work and so to break the Sabbath. Jesus said: "It was for judgment that I came into this world that those who do not see might see, and that those who see might become blind." They were in the unrelieved darkness of the world, they judged after the flesh. Although sin can indeed lead to . This seems to me of deep interest; for we are too apt to look on Christ merely as One whose power dealt with sickness and with the grave. The Church of Rome seems to inculcate some kind of implicit faith (or credulity) which can exist apart from knowledge; but how can I believe that which I do not know Paul puts it thus, "Faith cometh by hearing." 2:1-9). He would abide for ever. He who has such a meagre notion of the scene has everything to learn about it. Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this. The day had been sanctified from the beginning; the duty of the Jew was unquestionable; but sin was man's state; after every remedial measure, he was thoroughly and only evil continually. To know Christ is sometimes said to be analogous to believing in Christ. And he put the meaning into it that sin awaited man at the door of the womb, as soon as he was born. Whenever a man is confronted with Jesus, that man at once passes a judgment on himself. There is nothing which clears, establishes, and vindicates the law, and every other principle of God, so truly as His grace. There was no cry here to the Son of David. "I must work the works of him that sent me while it is day." He sought you when you were dead in your trespasses and sins and granted saving faith to you as His gracious gift (Eph. Jesus heard that they had cast him out This is the Thermopylae, of Christian experience. "Ah!" If you knew that you bought an estate, some time ago, bug you have since heard that the title to it is a very uncertain one, in fact, that, in all probability, you will lose all you have paid for it, would you not say, "I ought to have taken care to be certain about the title, and I would not have bought the estate if I had not felt that the deeds relating to it were all right". The word of God explains this mystery. How could the sheep trust such shepherds as these? He simply saw himself as God's humble loving servant and a servant of humanity, and wanted us to trust him as he reached out to introduce us to the Supreme Being and ask us to love Him: What Jesus Really Said: The Meaning of Jesus' Teachings in John. Jesus, then, was doing this work "while it is day." They went on to try to browbeat the man. He was cursed in the presence of the people, and he was cut off from God and from man. Who but He should be the first to unveil to disciples on earth the heavenly scene of love and holiness and joy and glory He knew so well? JOHN 9:3 3Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but that the works of God should be manifested in him. While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. The focus of Jesus' work, in other words, was on the needs of others rather than on His own needs. His eyes had been opened, and he was thereby made ready to believe anything that Jesus might tell him. Now there were those who taught prenatal sin. It was not that he believed in these things, but he kindled expectation by doing what the patient would expect a doctor to do. Moses guaranteed to Pharaoh that he really was God's messenger by the signs and wonders which he performed ( Exodus 4:1-17).

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