John 9


John 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the healing of a man who had been blind from birth, a miracle performed by Jesus, and their subsequent dealings with the Pharisees. The book containing this chapter is anonymous, but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel.

Text

The original text was written in Koine Greek. This chapter is divided into 41 verses.

Textual witnesses

Some early manuscripts containing the text of this chapter are:
The New King James Version organises this chapter as follows:
Jesus and His disciples are said to be "passing by" and there is no indication yet that they have left Jerusalem, the scene of the narrative in chapters 7 and 8. Jesus sends the man He heals to the Pool of Siloam, a rock-cut pool on the southern slope of Jerusalem, located outside the walls of the Old City to the southeast. However, there are also references to a Jewish ruling that anyone who believed Jesus to be the Messiah would be excluded from the synagogue. There is no other New Testament reference to Jerusalem having a synagogue, but rabbinical tradition states that there were 480 synagogues in Jerusalem at the time of the Jewish rebellion.

Chronology

The initial events of this chapter occur on a Sabbath, not necessarily connected with the Feast of Tabernacles or the days immediately afterwards when the events of John 7-8 took place. Anglican Bishop Charles Ellicott suggests that this was the last day, the "great day" of the Feast of Tabernacles referred to in because "nothing has taken place which makes it necessary to suppose any interval, and though the discourses seem long, they would have occupied but a short time in delivery" and the Pulpit Commentary agrees that "the day may have been a festival sabbath".
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Verse 4

This verse begins with "we must" in the Westcott-Hort version and in the New International Version. The Textus Receptus and the Vulgate both use the singular, "I must". The reference to "Him who sent me" anticipates the evangelist's note that "Siloam means 'Sent', so that Jesus who has been sent by his Father... is also present in this water".

Verse 22

"The word for ‘out of the synagogue’ is peculiar to John, occurring John 12:42, John 16:2, and nowhere else". The decision has been linked to the possible Council of Jamnia which was once thought to have decided the content of the Jewish canon sometime in the late 1st century.
Verse 34 confirms that "they cast him out", the Amplified Bible and the New Living Translation adding text to refer to his exclusion from the synagogue.

Verse 39

Verse 40-41