John 9:13

The Pharisees Investigate the Healing

13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.

John 9:13 in Other Translations

13 They brought to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.

13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind.

13 Then they took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees,

13 They marched the man to the Pharisees.

13 They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

John 9:13 Meaning and Commentary

John 9:13

They brought to the Pharisees
That is, to the sanhedrim, which chiefly consisted of Pharisees; and so Nonnus calls them the priests and chief priests:

him that was aforetime blind;
to be examined by them. And something like this is the method used by carnal relations and friends, who when they have any belonging to them under a work of grace, have them to their learned doctors of a different religion, to talk to them, and dissuade them from the ways of truth and godliness.

John 9:13 In-Context

11 He replied, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and put it on my eyes. He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and then I could see.”

12 “Where is this man?” they asked him. “I don’t know,” he said.

13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind.

14 Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened the man’s eyes was a Sabbath.

15 Therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. “He put mud on my eyes,” the man replied, “and I washed, and now I see.”