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Jesus said to them, "If you were blind, you would have no sin; but now you say, `We see.` Therefore your sin remains.
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Pride Blinds, Humility Sees
Commentators agree that the Pharisees' ultimate sin was not their spiritual blindness, but their proud refusal to admit it. By claiming "We see," they rejected their need for Jesus, the true light. Scholars like Albert Barnes and Matthew Henry explain that this self-conceit fortifies the heart against God, ensuring their sin remains unpardoned because they refuse the only remedy.
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18th Century
Presbyterian
If you were blind. If you were really blind—had had no opportunities of learning the truth. If you were truly ignorant, …
If ye were blind (ε τυφλο ητε). Condition of second class with imperfect indicative in the protasis. The old word τυφλος is from τ…
19th Century
Anglican
If ye were blind, ye should have no sin.—His answer is that He does not place them among those who are in this second sen…
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Baptist
And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
The negative result is illustrated by the Pharisees’ response. Jesus’ remark in v.39 makes him the pivot on which human destiny turns. The Pharisee…
16th Century
Protestant
If you were blind. These words may be explained in two ways; either, that ignorance would, in some degree, alleviate their guilt, if they …
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17th Century
Reformed Baptist
Jesus said to them, if you were blind And sensible of it, and knew you were blind, and were desirous of light and kn…
Christ came into the world to give sight to those who were spiritually blind. He came also that those who see might be made blind; and that those w…
13th Century
Catholic
After the Evangelist showed how the Jews cast out the man born blind because he persisted in the truth, he now shows how Jesus received a…
