They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”
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- KJV Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
- BSB “How then were your eyes opened?” they asked.
- NKJV Therefore they said to him, “How were your eyes opened?”
- NASB So they were saying to him, “How then were your eyes opened?”
- NLT They asked, “Who healed you? What happened?”
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Cross-references · 7
- John 9:26They said to him again, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”
- John 9:21but how he now sees, we don’t know; or who opened his eyes, we don’t know. He is of age. Ask him. He will speak for himself.”
- 1 Cor 15:35But someone will say, “How are the dead raised?” and, “With what kind of body do they come?”
- Eccl 11:5As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.
- Mark 4:27and should sleep and rise night and day, and the seed should spring up and grow, he doesn’t know how.
- John 9:15Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his sight. He said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, I washed, and I see.”
- John 3:9Nicodemus answered him, “How can these things be?”
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