They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.
Parallel translations
- WEB They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” They threw him out.
- KJV They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out.
- NKJV They answered and said to him, “You were completely born in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they cast him out.
- NASB They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and yet you are teaching us?” So they put him out.
- NLT “You were born a total sinner!” they answered. “Are you trying to teach us?” And they threw him out of the synagogue.
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Quick answer
The leaders revile the man as steeped in sin and expel him for daring to teach them. They reject both his testimony and him.
Overview
Unable to refute his reasoning, the Pharisees resort to insult, charging him with sinfulness from birth, and cast him out of the synagogue. He suffers the very penalty his parents feared, for confessing Christ. His expulsion sets up Jesus' tender search for him in the following verses, showing that those rejected for Christ's sake are received by Christ himself.
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Cross-references · 33
- John 9:22His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
- John 9:2and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
- Isa 66:5You who tremble at His word, hear the word of the LORD: “Your brothers who hate you and exclude you because of My name have said, ‘Let the LORD be glorified that we may see your joy!’ But they will be put to shame.”
- Luke 18:17Truly I tell you, anyone who does not receive the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it.”
- Ps 51:5Surely I was brought forth in iniquity; I was sinful when my mother conceived me.
- Gen 19:9“Get out of the way!” they replied. And they declared, “This one came here as a foreigner, and he is already acting like a judge! Now we will treat you worse than them.” And they pressed in on Lot and moved in to break down the door.
- Job 25:4How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
- 2 Chr 25:16While he was still speaking, the king asked, “Have we made you the counselor to the king? Stop! Why be struck down?” So the prophet stopped, but he said, “I know that God has determined to destroy you, because you have done this and have not heeded my advice.”
- John 8:41You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.”
- 1 Cor 5:4–5When you are assembled in the name of our Lord Jesus and I am with you in spirit, along with the power of the Lord Jesus,
- Rev 13:17so that no one could buy or sell unless he had the mark—the name of the beast or the number of its name.
- Luke 11:45One of the experts in the law told Him, “Teacher, when You say these things, You insult us as well.”
- Matt 18:17–18If he refuses to listen to them, tell it to the church. And if he refuses to listen even to the church, regard him as you would a pagan or a tax collector.
- 1 Cor 5:13God will judge those outside. “Expel the wicked man from among you.”
- Exod 2:14But the man replied, “Who made you ruler and judge over us? Are you planning to kill me as you killed the Egyptian?” Then Moses was afraid and thought, “This thing I have done has surely become known.”
- Luke 6:22Blessed are you when people hate you, and when they exclude you and insult you and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man.
- John 7:48–49“Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him?
- Luke 18:10–14“Two men went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee and the other a tax collector.
- Job 15:14–16What is man, that he should be pure, or one born of woman, that he should be righteous?
- Prov 22:10Drive out the mocker, and conflict will depart; even quarreling and insults will cease.
- Eph 2:3All of us also lived among them at one time, fulfilling the cravings of our flesh and indulging its desires and thoughts. Like the rest, we were by nature children of wrath.
- John 9:40Some of the Pharisees who were with Him heard this, and they asked Him, “Are we blind too?”
- Prov 26:12Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him.
- Prov 29:1A man who remains stiff-necked after much reproof will suddenly be shattered beyond recovery.
- John 9:35When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, He found the man and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
- Gal 2:15We who are Jews by birth and not Gentile “sinners”
- 1 Pet 5:5Young men, in the same way, submit yourselves to your elders. And all of you, clothe yourselves with humility toward one another, because, “God opposes the proud, but gives grace to the humble.”
- Prov 9:7–8He who corrects a mocker brings shame on himself; he who rebukes a wicked man taints himself.
- 3 Jn 1:9I have written to the church about this, but Diotrephes, who loves to be first, will not accept our instruction.
- Isa 65:5They say, ‘Keep to yourself; do not come near me, for I am holier than you!’ Such people are smoke in My nostrils, a fire that burns all day long.
- Luke 14:11For everyone who exalts himself will be humbled, and the one who humbles himself will be exalted.”
- Job 14:4Who can bring out clean from unclean? No one!
- John 6:37Everyone the Father gives Me will come to Me, and the one who comes to Me I will never drive away.
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