6When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,
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And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes with eyesalve, that thou mayest see.
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-7)We have here sight given to a poor beggar that had been blind from his birth. Observe, I. The notice which our Lord Jesus took of the piteous case of this poor blind man (John 9:1): As Jesus passed by he saw a man which was blind from his birth . The first words seem to refer to the last of the foregoing chapter, and countenance the opinion of those who in the harmony place this story immediately…
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