They *brought the man who was previously blind to the Pharisees.
Parallel translations
- WEB They brought him who had been blind to the Pharisees.
- KJV They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
- BSB They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.
- NKJV They brought him who formerly was blind to the Pharisees.
- NLT Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees,
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The people bring the formerly blind man to the Pharisees. The miracle becomes a matter for official religious scrutiny.
Overview
The man is taken before the Pharisees, the religious authorities, for examination. This sets up the central conflict of the chapter between the evidence of the miracle and the leaders' hostility to Jesus. The investigation will expose the Pharisees' spiritual blindness even as the healed man's sight, both physical and spiritual, increases.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 5
- John 12:42Nevertheless even of the rulers many believed in him, but because of the Pharisees they didn’t confess it, so that they wouldn’t be put out of the synagogue,
- John 11:57Now the chief priests and the Pharisees had commanded that if anyone knew where he was, he should report it, that they might seize him.
- John 11:46–47But some of them went away to the Pharisees, and told them the things which Jesus had done.
- John 8:3–8The scribes and the Pharisees brought a woman taken in adultery. Having set her in the middle,
- John 12:19The Pharisees therefore said among themselves, “See how you accomplish nothing. Behold, the world has gone after him.”
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