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Soοὖνthey were sayingἔλεγονto him,αὐτῷ“HowΠῶςwereἠνεῴχθησάνyour eyesσου οἱ ὀφθαλμοίopened?”ἠνεῴχθησάν
John 9:10
Study it in the app“So they were saying to him, “How were your eyes opened?””
With the Greek beneath
John 9:10, word by word
- they were sayingἔλεγονelegon
say
To express something in words to others.
Where else “elegon” appears- wereἠνεῴχθησάνēneōichthēsan
open
Open.
Where else “ēneōichthēsan” appears- your eyesὀφθαλμοίophthalmoi
eye
The organ of sight, in the face.
Where else “ophthalmoi” appears
The context
9Others were saying, “It is he”; others were saying, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the one.”
10 · This verse (above)
11He answered, “The man called Jesus made mud and spread it on my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and I received my sight.”
To study John 9 in a group
1. What it says
What does Jesus do to heal the man born blind, and what does he tell him to do? How does the man answer the Pharisees? (vv. 6-7, 24-34)
2. What it means
The disciples asked who had sinned, and Jesus answered something else (vv. 2-3). What does he want to show through this healing? (vv. 3-5, 39)
3. How I live it
The man said, “One thing I know: though I was blind, now I see” (v. 25). What can you say simply about what God has done in you?