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A False Dilemma
The Pharisees pitted Jesus against Moses, claiming loyalty to the established lawgiver to reject Jesus. Commentators explain they presented a false dilemma, believing one must choose between Moses and Jesus. They used their reverence for tradition as a reason to dismiss the new work God was doing right in front of them, viewing Jesus' actions as a transgression of the Mosaic law.
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Albert Barnes
On John 9:29
18th Century
Theologian
We know, and so on. We know that God commanded Moses to deliver the law. In that, they were correct; but they assumed their inter…
AT Robertson
On John 9:29
We know that God hath spoken unto Moses (ημεις οιδαμεν οτ Μωυσε λελαληκεν ο θεος). Perfect active indicative of λαλεω, so still on…
Charles Ellicott
On John 9:29
19th Century
Bishop
We know that God spake unto Moses.—Better, We know that God hath spoken unto Moses. “He was commissioned,” they would say, “by Go…
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Charles Spurgeon
On John 9:29–30
19th Century
Preacher
We do not know from where he is. The man answered and said to them, Why, this is a marvelous thing, that you do not know from where he is, and …
Expositor's Bible Commentary
On John 9:29
Such a response to learned rabbis on the part of an illiterate man was surely considered insulting. The Jews quickly retorted that they were abidin…
John Calvin
On John 9:29
16th Century
Theologian
As for this man, we know not whence he is. When they say so, they refer not to his country or the place of his birth, but to the prophetic…
John Gill
On John 9:29
17th Century
Pastor
We know that God spoke to Moses
Out of the bush, and told him who he was, and sent him to deliver the children of Is…
Matthew Henry
On John 9:24–34
17th Century
Minister
As Christ's mercies are most valued by those who have felt their need for them, who have been blind and now see; so the most powerful and lasting a…