NEW TESTAMENT

John 9:6

The Holy Bible · English
All chapters

Read all chapter notes ↗

Bilingual reading
Text

Open an explanation beneath verses with notes. Your notes and highlights stay on this device.

6

When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,

ExplanationCommentary
EXPLANATION

Verse 6. He spat on the ground. With clay and spittle he cured the blind man, to make the miracle more visible. Witham.—From the example of Jesus Christ, religious ceremonies are introduced in the administration of the sacraments; and can the Church be blamed for copying her divine Founder? A.

Read all chapter notes
Read the whole chapter