Why did they take the ex-blind to the pharisees?
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And did they aim at rejoicing together for this miracle? No, did they?
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", that's why i agree with you, for i still doubt. Those neighbour of his, were they questionning the ex-blind for their not knowing the answer, or to check how free he was, as regards his "Dangerous" testifying of Truth? Anonymity is a great status for those who Don't belong to light!
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"Why did they take the ex-blind to the pharisees?"
Always read the whole passage. see v 8+9 there was a dispute as too whether this was or was not the man born blind, so they took him to the authorities to resolve the dispute.
They were careful in the assessment of the evidence.
His parents confirmed identity and that he'd been born blind.
His testimony was heard several time, checking whether it changed.
But because his account did not fit in there view of how the world and religion worked he was rejected.
Always read the whole passage. see v 8+9 there was a dispute as too whether this was or was not the man born blind, so they took him to the authorities to resolve the dispute.
They were careful in the assessment of the evidence.
His parents confirmed identity and that he'd been born blind.
His testimony was heard several time, checking whether it changed.
But because his account did not fit in there view of how the world and religion worked he was rejected.
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This passage seems quite strange until you understand one important point, and then everything will fall into place.
This man was not simply born unable to see, he was born without eyes.
When Jesus made balls of mud and put them in his empty sockets, He was making the man eyes in the same way He made Adam in the garden of Eden.
Having eyes made such a dramatic change to his appearance that people who had known him all his life could not be certain he was the same man. They simply could not believe he now had eyes where previously there had been empty sockets. This miracle was completely different to the many other times Christ had healed the blind which is why there is so much drama following.
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There may have been pharisees among the authorities, but precisely, they weren't the authorities. Subsequently, they should, in a neutral spirit, have taken the ex-blind to the authorities, not to this sect . From which stems my question
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Where do you get this piece of information?
Jn 9,6(KJV)6 "When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay"
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How do you know?
The verses preceeding Jn 9, from Jn 8,31 to Jn 8,54 are about a dispute with "the Jews":
31 Jesus therefore said to those Jews that had believed him, If ye abide in my word, [then] are ye truly my disciples; 32 and ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free...etc.
Nothing in between Jn 8,54 and Jn 9, that starts with:
9 And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or his parents, that he should be born blind?
3 Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.
4 We must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.
5 When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
6 When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay, 7 and said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent). He went away therefore, and washed, and came seeing.
8 The neighbors therefore, and they that saw him aforetime, that he was a beggar, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?
9 Others said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am [he].
10 They said therefore unto him, How then were thine eyes opened?
11 He answered, The man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to Siloam, and wash: so I went away and washed, and I received sight.
12 And they said unto him, Where is he? He saith, I know not.
13 They bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
And Why, if you're right, does the scripture distinguish "the jews" from "the pharisees"?
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I mean there are two contradictory versions: The New Testament, where is clearly written in Jn 9,6 the word "eyes". If the Church Fathers wrote Something more (and slighly different), i choose to Believe the Gospel.
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Its a case of synecdoche, where in this case the whole (eyeballs, nerves and muscles in eye sockets) refers to the part (eye sockets). Also, the Fathers who wrote about this passage were reading it in their native tongue. I would be wary of making such judgments based on a translation.
As I mentioned before, Christ healed many others who were blind yet no one made a big deal about it because they simply went from having infirm eyes to healthy eyes. John 9 doesn't make any sense until you understand the true nature of this man's blindness (no eyes), which explains why his appearance had changed so dramatically that people could not accept he was the same man they had known all their lives.
As I mentioned before, Christ healed many others who were blind yet no one made a big deal about it because they simply went from having infirm eyes to healthy eyes. John 9 doesn't make any sense until you understand the true nature of this man's blindness (no eyes), which explains why his appearance had changed so dramatically that people could not accept he was the same man they had known all their lives.
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google is wonderful. use it and search 'pharisees' you'll find explanations as to who they were and what possitions they held.
The 'jews' were the ordinary people, the friends, neighbours, passers by in the town who disputed whether this was the man born blind.
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I saw on the internet it happens some people are born without eyes: it does exists, it follows your explanation may be true
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Being from the UK, i guess you'll be sensitive to the difference between going at the labour's (office) and going to parliament to speak with any elected UK-labour, won't you?(Labour is for the example, i could have chosen another of your parties)
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