Verse (Click for Chapter) New International Version To this they replied, “You were steeped in sin at birth; how dare you lecture us!” And they threw him out. New Living Translation “You were born a total sinner!” they answered. “Are you trying to teach us?” And they threw him out of the synagogue. English Standard Version They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out. Berean Standard Bible They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out. Berean Literal Bible They answered and said to him, "You were born entirely in sins, and do you teach us?" And they cast him out. King James Bible They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. New King James Version They answered and said to him, “You were completely born in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they cast him out. New American Standard Bible They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and yet you are teaching us?” So they put him out. NASB 1995 They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they put him out. NASB 1977 They answered and said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they put him out. Legacy Standard Bible They answered and said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” So they put him out. Amplified Bible They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins [from head to foot], and you [presume to] teach us?” Then they threw him out [of the synagogue]. Christian Standard Bible “You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us? ” Then they threw him out. Holman Christian Standard Bible You were born entirely in sin,” they replied, “and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out. American Standard Version They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. Contemporary English Version The leaders told the man, "You have been a sinner since the day you were born! Do you think you can teach us anything?" Then they said, "You can never come back into any of our synagogues!" English Revised Version They answered and said unto him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. GOD'S WORD® Translation The Jews answered him, "You were born full of sin. Do you think you can teach us?" Then they threw him out [of the synagogue]. Good News Translation They answered, "You were born and brought up in sin--and you are trying to teach us?" And they expelled him from the synagogue. International Standard Version They asked him, "You were born a sinner and you are trying to instruct us?" And they threw him out. Majority Standard Bible They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out. NET Bible They replied, "You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?" So they threw him out. New Heart English Bible They answered him, "You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?" They threw him out. Webster's Bible Translation They answered and said to him, Thou wast altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? and they cast him out. Weymouth New Testament "You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin, and do *you* teach *us*?" And they put him out of the synagogue. World English Bible They answered him, “You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us?” Then they threw him out. Literal Translations Literal Standard VersionThey answered and said to him, “In sins you were born altogether, and you teach us?” And they cast him forth outside. Berean Literal Bible They answered and said to him, "You were born entirely in sins, and do you teach us?" And they cast him out. Young's Literal Translation They answered and said to him, 'In sins thou wast born altogether, and thou dost teach us!' and they cast him forth without. Smith's Literal Translation They answered and said to him, In sins wert thou wholly born, and teachest thou us? And they cast him without. Catholic Translations Douay-Rheims BibleThey answered, and said to him: Thou wast wholly born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. Catholic Public Domain Version They responded and said to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and you would teach us?” And they cast him out. New American Bible They answered and said to him, “You were born totally in sin, and are you trying to teach us?” Then they threw him out. New Revised Standard Version They answered him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you trying to teach us?” And they drove him out. Translations from Aramaic Lamsa BibleThey answered and said to him, You were wholly born in sins, and yet do you teach us? And they cast him out. Aramaic Bible in Plain English They answered and were saying to him, “You were born entirely in sins, and are you teaching us?” And they cast him out. NT Translations Anderson New TestamentThey answered and said to him: You were wholly born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out. Godbey New Testament They responded and said to him, Thou art altogether born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. Haweis New Testament They answered and said unto him, Thou wast wholly born in sins, and dost thou teach us? And they cast him out. Mace New Testament they answered, you were a vicious fellow from your very birth, and do you pretend to preach to us? and then they excommunicated him. Weymouth New Testament "You," they replied, "were wholly begotten and born in sin, and do *you* teach *us*?" And they put him out of the synagogue. Worrell New Testament They answered and said to him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us!" And they cast him out. Worsley New Testament They answered, and said unto him, Thou wast wholly born in sins, and dost thou teach us? Additional Translations ... Audio Bible Context The Pharisees Investigate the Healing…33If this man were not from God, He could do no such thing.” 34They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out. 35When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, He found the man and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”… Cross References John 8:41 You are doing the works of your father.” “We are not illegitimate children,” they declared. “Our only Father is God Himself.” John 7:47-49 “Have you also been deceived?” replied the Pharisees. / “Have any of the rulers or Pharisees believed in Him? / But this crowd that does not know the law—they are under a curse.” Matthew 23:34 Because of this, I am sending you prophets and wise men and teachers. Some of them you will kill and crucify, and others you will flog in your synagogues and persecute from town to town. Luke 11:52 Woe to you experts in the law! For you have taken away the key to knowledge. You yourselves have not entered, and you have hindered those who were entering.” Acts 7:51-53 You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did. / Which of the prophets did your fathers fail to persecute? They even killed those who foretold the coming of the Righteous One. And now you are His betrayers and murderers— / you who received the law ordained by angels, yet have not kept it.” Isaiah 5:21 Woe to those who are wise in their own eyes and clever in their own sight. Proverbs 26:12 Do you see a man who is wise in his own eyes? There is more hope for a fool than for him. John 15:18-21 If the world hates you, understand that it hated Me first. / If you were of the world, it would love you as its own. Instead, the world hates you, because you are not of the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. / Remember the word that I spoke to you: ‘No servant is greater than his master.’ If they persecuted Me, they will persecute you as well; if they kept My word, they will keep yours as well. ... Matthew 15:14 Disregard them! They are blind guides. If a blind man leads a blind man, both will fall into a pit.” Romans 2:19-20 if you are convinced that you are a guide for the blind, a light for those in darkness, / an instructor of the foolish, a teacher of infants, because you have in the law the embodiment of knowledge and truth— 1 Corinthians 1:26-29 Brothers, consider the time of your calling: Not many of you were wise by human standards; not many were powerful; not many were of noble birth. / But God chose the foolish things of the world to shame the wise; God chose the weak things of the world to shame the strong. / He chose the lowly and despised things of the world, and the things that are not, to nullify the things that are, ... Isaiah 29:20-21 For the ruthless will vanish, the mockers will disappear, and all who look for evil will be cut down— / those who indict a man with a word, who ensnare the mediator at the gate, and who with false charges deprive the innocent of justice. Jeremiah 5:4-5 Then I said, “They are only the poor; they have played the fool, for they do not know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God. / I will go to the powerful and speak to them. Surely they know the way of the LORD, the justice of their God.” But they too, with one accord, had broken the yoke and torn off the chains. John 12:42-43 Nevertheless, many of the leaders believed in Him. But because of the Pharisees they did not confess Him, for fear that they would be put out of the synagogue. / For they loved praise from men more than praise from God. Matthew 21:23-27 When Jesus returned to the temple courts and began to teach, the chief priests and elders of the people came up to Him. “By what authority are You doing these things?” they asked. “And who gave You this authority?” / “I will also ask you one question,” Jesus replied, “and if you answer Me, I will tell you by what authority I am doing these things. / What was the source of John’s baptism? Was it from heaven or from men?” They deliberated among themselves and said, “If we say, ‘From heaven,’ He will ask, ‘Why then did you not believe him?’ ... Treasury of Scripture They answered and said to him, You were altogether born in sins, and do you teach us? And they cast him out. wast. John 9:2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? John 8:41 Ye do the deeds of your father. Then said they to him, We be not born of fornication; we have one Father, even God. Job 14:4 Who can bring a clean thing out of an unclean? not one. and dost. John 9:40 And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also? John 7:48,49 Have any of the rulers or of the Pharisees believed on him? … Genesis 19:9 And they said, Stand back. And they said again, This one fellow came in to sojourn, and he will needs be a judge: now will we deal worse with thee, than with them. And they pressed sore upon the man, even Lot, and came near to break the door. And they. John 9:22 These words spake his parents, because they feared the Jews: for the Jews had agreed already, that if any man did confess that he was Christ, he should be put out of the synagogue. John 6:37 All that the Father giveth me shall come to me; and him that cometh to me I will in no wise cast out. Proverbs 22:10 Cast out the scorner, and contention shall go out; yea, strife and reproach shall cease. cast him out. Matthew 18:17,18 And if he shall neglect to hear them, tell it unto the church: but if he neglect to hear the church, let him be unto thee as an heathen man and a publican… 1 Corinthians 5:4,5,13 In the name of our Lord Jesus Christ, when ye are gathered together, and my spirit, with the power of our Lord Jesus Christ, … Jump to Previous Altogether Begotten Birth Born Cast Dare Entirely Forth Sin Sins Synagogue Teach Teacher Teachest Teaching Threw Utter Wast Wholly WithoutJump to Next Altogether Begotten Birth Born Cast Dare Entirely Forth Sin Sins Synagogue Teach Teacher Teachest Teaching Threw Utter Wast Wholly WithoutJohn 9 1. The man born blind is restored to sight.8. He is brought to the Pharisees. 13. They are offended at it; 35. but he is received of Jesus, and confesses him. 39. Who they are whom Jesus enlightens. They replied This phrase indicates a response from the Pharisees, who were religious leaders in Jewish society. Their reply is not just a casual conversation but a formal response to the man who had been healed by Jesus. The Greek word used here, "ἀπεκρίθησαν" (apekrithēsan), suggests a decisive and authoritative answer, reflecting their position of power and influence. Historically, the Pharisees were known for their strict adherence to the Law and traditions, often placing them in opposition to Jesus' teachings. You were born in utter sin and you are instructing us? And they threw him out And dost thou teach us?--i.e., "Dost thou, marked more than is the common lot of man by sin, teach us, who are the authorised teachers and expositors of the truth?" For any one to have doubted their authority would have seemed out of question; but here was one who had been a beggar, one of the "people of the earth," untrained in the Law, and therefore cursed (comp. Note on John 7:49), and, more than this, altogether born in sin, who was actually teaching them! And they cast him out.--These words are generally taken to mean excommunication, as in the margin, and it is certain that they may have this sense. (Comp. 3John 1:10.) Having this meaning before them, our translators did not, however, think it the better one, and their view seems to be borne out by the general impression which we get from the narrative. The man with all his boldness has not technically fallen under the ban they had threatened, for he has not "confessed that He was Christ" (John 9:22). A decree of the Sanhedrin would have been necessary, and this must have been formally pronounced. Now, we feel that in a detailed narrative such as we have here, all this would hardly be told in a single short sentence. It seems to be rather that their anger has now passed all bounds. They cannot refute the truth which, in his honest, homely way, he has put before them. They can only heap reproaches upon him, and thrust him by force out of their presence. Verse 34. - Vanquished by this logic of simple fact and plain inference, the authorities have no other weapon to use but invective and persecution. They answered and said to him, Thou wast altogether born in sins; through and through a born reprobate. They take up the superstitious idea which seems (ver. 2) to have been floating in the mind of the disciples. From sins of parents or from thine own sins in thy mother's womb, thou earnest into the world with the brand of thy infamy upon thee. Thus they admit the change that has come over him by reverting to the peculiar depravity which had been stamped upon his brow, according to their narrow interpretation of Divine providence. And dost thou presume to teach us? - the chosen, the learned, the approved ministers of God? Dost thou, with all this heritage and mark of separation from God, dare to instruct the chief pastors and teachers of Israel? They did not stop with cruel words, but in their bitterness of spirit they thrust him forth; they violently expelled him from the synagogue where they were then seated (so Meyer, Maldonatus, Bengel, and many others). We are not told that there and then they excommunicated, or unsynagogued, him. It is probable that this ban followed, with the usual terrible formalities. He had practically confessed that the highest claims which Jesus had ever made about himself were true, and he made himself liable to the curse already pronounced (ver. 22). This marvelous narrative, with its lifelike detail, is not made the text of a discourse. It remains forever the startling vindication of our Lord's own word, that he was Light to the world and Eyesight too, and was able to supply both the objective condition and subjective change by which the nature of man could alone receive the light of life. From ver. 8 to ver. 34 is almost the only passage in the Gospel, with the exception of the passage, John 3:22-36, in which we are not standing in the actual presence of the Lord, or are not listening to his judgments on men and things, and to his revelations of the mystery of his own Person. The narrative so far stands by itself, and gives us an insight into the life which was being enacted in Jerusalem contemporaneously with the Divine self-revelation of Jesus.Parallel Commentaries ... Greek They replied,Ἀπεκρίθησαν (Apekrithēsan) Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 611: From apo and krino; to conclude for oneself, i.e. to respond; by Hebraism to begin to speak. “You σὺ (sy) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. were born ἐγεννήθης (egennēthēs) Verb - Aorist Indicative Passive - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 1080: From a variation of genos; to procreate; figuratively, to regenerate. in Ἐν (En) Preposition Strong's 1722: In, on, among. A primary preposition denoting position, and instrumentality, i.e. A relation of rest; 'in, ' at, on, by, etc. utter ὅλος (holos) Adjective - Nominative Masculine Singular Strong's 3650: All, the whole, entire, complete. A primary word; 'whole' or 'all', i.e. Complete, especially as noun or adverb. sin, ἁμαρτίαις (hamartiais) Noun - Dative Feminine Plural Strong's 266: From hamartano; a sin. and καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. you σὺ (sy) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Nominative 2nd Person Singular Strong's 4771: You. The person pronoun of the second person singular; thou. are instructing διδάσκεις (didaskeis) Verb - Present Indicative Active - 2nd Person Singular Strong's 1321: To teach, direct, admonish. A prolonged form of a primary verb dao; to teach. us?” ἡμᾶς (hēmas) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative 1st Person Plural Strong's 1473: I, the first-person pronoun. A primary pronoun of the first person I. And καὶ (kai) Conjunction Strong's 2532: And, even, also, namely. they threw ἐξέβαλον (exebalon) Verb - Aorist Indicative Active - 3rd Person Plural Strong's 1544: To throw (cast, put) out; I banish; I bring forth, produce. From ek and ballo; to eject. him αὐτὸν (auton) Personal / Possessive Pronoun - Accusative Masculine 3rd Person Singular Strong's 846: He, she, it, they, them, same. From the particle au; the reflexive pronoun self, used of the third person, and of the other persons. out. ἔξω (exō) Adverb Strong's 1854: Without, outside. Adverb from ek; out(-side, of doors), literally or figuratively. Links John 9:34 NIVJohn 9:34 NLT John 9:34 ESV John 9:34 NASB John 9:34 KJV John 9:34 BibleApps.com John 9:34 Biblia Paralela John 9:34 Chinese Bible John 9:34 French Bible John 9:34 Catholic Bible NT Gospels: John 9:34 They answered him You were altogether born (Jhn Jo Jn) |
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