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The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

John 9:25

In 9 translations

BSB
He answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. There is one thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!”
KJV
He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
WEB
He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
ASV
He therefore answered, Whether he is a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.
LSV
he answered, therefore, and said, “If He is a sinner—I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.”
YLT
he answered, therefore, and said, 'If he be a sinner — I have not known, one thing I have known, that, being blind, now I see.'
DBY
He answered therefore, If he is sinful I know not. One thing I know, that, being blind [before], now I see.
DRC
He said therefore to them: If he be a sinner, I know not: one thing I know, that whereas I was blind, now I see.
GNV
Then he answered, and sayd, Whether hee be a sinner or no, I can not tell: one thing I know, that I was blinde, and nowe I see.

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Spelling, punctuation and minor wording (1)
  • In STEPBible’s comparison, Textus Receptus, Byzantine text include καὶ εἶπεν (“and said”); NA28, NA27, Tyndale House, SBLGNT (2010), Westcott–Hort, Tregelles do not include this wording.
SBLGNT apparatus (1)

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  • SBLGNT: ἐκεῖνος. Westcott and Hort (1881), Tregelles, Nestle–Aland 28th edition read ἐκεῖνος; Robinson–Pierpont add καὶ εἶπεν.

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Original-language editions

SBLGNT
ἀπεκρίθη οὖν ἐκεῖνος· Εἰ ἁμαρτωλός ἐστιν οὐκ οἶδα· ἓν οἶδα ὅτι τυφλὸς ὢν ἄρτι βλέπω.
RP2018
Ἀπεκρίθη οὖν ἐκεῖνος καὶ εἶπεν, Εἰ ἁμαρτωλός ἐστιν, οὐκ οἶδα· ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι τυφλὸς ὤν, ἄρτι βλέπω.
TR-Boyd
Ἀπεκρίθη οὖν ἐκεῖνος καὶ εἶπεν, Εἰ ἁμαρτωλός ἐστιν, οὐκ οἶδα· ἓν οἶδα, ὅτι τυφλὸς ὤν, ἄρτι βλέπω.
SCR1894
απεκριθη ουν εκεινος και ειπεν ει αμαρτωλος εστιν ουκ οιδα εν οιδα οτι τυφλος ων αρτι βλεπω

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◆ Blind Man Healed

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Cross-references most cited first

  • John 9:30“That is remarkable indeed!” the man said. “You do not know where He is from, and yet He opened my eyes.
  • 1 John 5:10Whoever believes in the Son of God has this testimony within him; whoever does not believe God has made Him out to be a liar, because he has not believed in the testimony that God has given about His Son.
  • John 5:11But he answered, “The man who made me well told me, ‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

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