John 9:2 Parallel Translations

NASB:

GWT:

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, why was this man born blind? Did he or his parents sin?"(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

ASV:

And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?

BBE:

And his disciples put a question to him, saying, Master, was it because of this man's sin, or the sin of his father and mother, that he has been blind from birth?

DBY:

And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?

ERV:

And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?

WEY:

So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"

WBS:

And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?

WEB:

His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?"

YLT:

and his disciples asked him, saying, 'Rabbi, who did sin, this one or his parents, that he should be born blind?'

John 9:2 Cross References

XREF:

Exodus 20:5 "You shall not worship them or serve them; for I, the LORD your God, am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers on the children, on the third and the fourth generations of those who hate Me,

Matthew 23:7 and respectful greetings in the market places, and being called Rabbi by men.

Luke 13:2 And Jesus said to them, "Do you suppose that these Galileans were greater sinners than all other Galileans because they suffered this fate?

John 9:34 They answered him, "You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?" So they put him out.

Acts 28:4 When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they began saying to one another, "Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, and though he has been saved from the sea, justice has not allowed him to live." (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

PNT:

9:2 Master, who did sin? Many of our misfortunes and physical ills are brought on us either by our own sins, or are inherited from parents and caused by their sins. The disciples ask if the blindness is a judgment, and who caused it? They were, perhaps, not aware that he was blind from birth.

WES:

9:2 Who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind? - That is, was it for his own sins, or the sins of his parents? They suppose (as many of the Jews did, though without any ground from Scripture) that he might have sinned in a pre - existent state, before he came into the world.

MHC:

9:1-7 Christ cured many who were blind by disease or accident; here he cured one born blind. Thus he showed his power to help in the most desperate cases, and the work of his grace upon the souls of sinners, which gives sight to those blind by nature. This poor man could not see Christ, but Christ saw him. And if we know or apprehend anything of Christ, it is because we were first known of him. Christ says of uncommon calamities, that they are not always to be looked on as special punishments of sin; sometimes they are for the glory of God, and to manifest his works. Our life is our day, in which it concerns us to do the work of the day. We must be busy, and not waste day-time; it will be time to rest when our day is done, for it is but a day. The approach of death should quicken us to improve all our opportunities of doing and getting good. What good we have an opportunity to do, we should do quickly. And he that will never do a good work till there is nothing to be objected against, will leave many a good work for ever undone, Ec 11:4. Christ magnified his power, in making a blind man to see, doing that which one would think more likely to make a seeing man blind. Human reason cannot judge of the Lord's methods; he uses means and instruments that men despise. Those that would be healed by Christ must be ruled by him. He came back from the pool wondering and wondered at; he came seeing. This represents the benefits in attending on ordinances of Christ's appointment; souls go weak, and come away strengthened; go doubting, and come away satisfied; go mourning, and come away rejoicing; go blind, and come away seeing.

CONC:

Birth Blind Born Disciples Man's Master Parents Question Rabbi Saying Sin Sinned

Birth Blind Born Disciples Master Mother Parents Question Rabbi Sin Sinned

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