John 9

John 9
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John 16:14-22 on the recto side of Papyrus 5, written about AD 250.
Book	Gospel of John
Bible part	New Testament
Order in the Bible part	4
Category	Gospel

John 9 is the ninth chapter of the Gospel of John in the New Testament of the Christian Bible. It records the healing the man blind from birth, a miracle performed by Jesus.^[1] The book containing this chapter is anonymous but early Christian tradition uniformly affirmed that John composed this Gospel.^[2]

Text

• The original text is written in Koine Greek.
• Some most ancient manuscripts containing this chapter are:
  • Papyrus 75 (AD 175-225)
  • Papyrus 66 (ca. AD 200).
  • Codex Vaticanus (AD 325-350)
  • Codex Sinaiticus (AD 330-360)
  • Codex Bezae (ca. AD 400)
  • Codex Alexandrinus (AD 400-440)
  • Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus (ca. AD 450; extant: verses 1-10)
  • Papyrus 128 (6th-/7th century; extant: verses 3-4)
• This chapter is divided into 41 verses.

Structure

This chapter can be grouped

• John 9:1-12 = A Man Born Blind Receives Sight
• John 9:13-34 = The Pharisees Excommunicate the Healed Man
• John 9:35-41 = True Vision and True Blindness

Christ healing the blind, by Nicolas Colombel, 1682

Verse 39

New King James Version

And Jesus said, “For judgment I have come into this world, that those who do not see may see, and that those who see may be made blind.”^[3]

See also

• Healing the man blind from birth
• Jesus Christ
• Pool of Siloam
• Other related Bible parts: 2 Kings 20, 2 Chronicles 32, Isaiah 8

References

1. Halley, Henry H. Halley's Bible Handbook: an abbreviated Bible commentary. 23rd edition. Zondervan Publishing House. 1962.
2. Holman Illustrated Bible Handbook. Holman Bible Publishers, Nashville, Tennessee. 2012.
3. John 9:39

External links

• John 9 NIV