Jean 9:9

9 Les uns disaient: C'est lui; d'autres: Il lui ressemble; lui disait: C'est moi-même.

Jean 9:9 Meaning and Commentary

John 9:9

Some said, this is he
It is the same man that was blind, and begged:

others [said];
in one of Beza's copies it is added "no", and so read the Vulgate Latin, and all the Oriental versions; though they owned and said,

he is like him.
This discourse of the neighbours concerning the blind man restored to sight, resembles the talk that generally is among relations, acquaintance, and neighbours, when anyone belonging to them is called by grace, and converted, saying, what is come to such an one? is he mad or melancholy? he is not the man he was: he is scarcely the same; is it he, or another? what is the matter with him?

[but] he said, I am [he];
and so put an end to the dispute between them, by his frank acknowledgment that he was the blind man, and the beggar they before knew as such: so persons enlightened by the Spirit of God, and effectually called by his grace, are very free and ready to acknowledge what they were before conversion, what poor, blind, and miserable, and contemptible creatures they were: Matthew owns himself to have been a publican; and Paul confesses he was a blasphemer, a persecutor, and an injurious person, and the chief of sinners.

Jean 9:9 In-Context

7 Et il lui dit: Va, et te lave au réservoir de Siloé (ce qui signifie Envoyé). Il y alla donc et se lava, et il s'en alla voyant clair.

8 Or, les voisins et ceux qui avaient vu auparavant qu'il était aveugle, disaient: N'est-ce pas là celui qui se tenait assis, et qui demandait l'aumône?

9 Les uns disaient: C'est lui; d'autres: Il lui ressemble; lui disait: C'est moi-même.

10 Ils lui dirent donc: Comment tes yeux ont-ils été ouverts?

11 Il répondit: Un homme qu'on appelle Jésus a fait de la boue, et en a oint mes yeux, et m'a dit: Va au réservoir de Siloé, et t'y lave. Je suis donc allé, et me suis lavé, et je vois.