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# Joh 9:4
\\The night cometh, when no man can work.\\ The works of God
are to be made manifest in the blind man; Christ must work those
works while the short day of life lasteth. His night of death
was near. Nor is ours far off.
(PNT 364)
03301
# Joh 9:5
\\I am the light of the world.\\ He opens the blind eyes of
both the body and the soul. We see morally, because he has given
us light.
(PNT 365)
03303
# Joh 9:7
\\Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.\\ It was Christ's rule to
require an act of faith. Hence, instead of bidding him to see,
he sent him to Siloam to wash the clay from his eyes. Siloam is
a rock-hewn basin fifty-three feet long, eighteen wide, and
nineteen deep, fed by a spring. It is named in
# Isa 8:6 Ne 3:15
and can still be seen in Jerusalem.
(PNT 365)
03309
# Joh 9:13
\\They brought to the Pharisees him.\\ It was a notable event
that demanded investigation. Hence they brought him to religious
men of great influence.
(PNT 365)
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# Joh 9:14
\\It was the sabbath.\\ Saturday, the Jewish Sabbath. We have
found in the case of the miracle at the pool of Bethesda how
they were angered by his apparent violation of the day.
(PNT 365)
03312
# Joh 9:16
\\This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the
\\sabbath.\\ The Pharisees questioned the man, learned that his
eyes had been smeared with spittle, and then declared that Jesus
had broken the Sabbath. Even this was a violation, not of the
law, but of their tradition.
See note on "Mt 15:2"
(PNT 365)
03313
# Joh 9:17
\\He said, He is a prophet.\\ A little while before he had
said that "a man called Jesus" healed him; now he declares that
"he is a prophet"; a little later he is prepared to receive him
as the Son of God. His convictions constantly deepened.
(PNT 366)
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# Joh 9:22
\\Because they feared the Jews.\\ The rulers. They knew that
it was agreed to excommunicate any one who confessed Christ.
Hence they said, He was born blind, he now sees, you must ask
him how he was cured. He is of age. To be cast out of the
synagogue was an awful punishment to a Jew. It put him on a
level with the heathen.
(PNT 366)
03320
# Joh 9:24
\\We know that this man is a sinner.\\ Because he healed on
the Sabbath.
(PNT 366)
03326
# Joh 9:30-33
\\Why here is a marvellous thing.\\ It was also a "marvellous
thing" that one who was a blind beggar a few hours before should
now expound theology to the very men that "sat in Moses' seat,"
and show a better knowledge of the spirit of the Scriptures than
the great ecclesiastics. Without the power of God no man could
open the eyes of one born blind.
(PNT 366-367)
03330
# Joh 9:34
\\They cast him out.\\ If they could not answer his arguments
they could excommunicate him. This they did. Observe that this
miracle was officially investigated by the enemies of Christ,
and they were compelled to admit it. The judicial investigation
showed that he was born blind, that he was cured, and that Jesus
gave him sight.
(PNT 367)
03331
# Joh 9:35-38
\\Dost thou believe on the Son of God?\\ Jesus sought the
poor excommunicated man, revealed himself to him and was
confessed. The man had lost the world, but found Christ.
Observe that he believes with the heart, confesses with the
mouth, and shows his faith by his homage.
(PNT 367)
03335
# Joh 9:39
\\For judgment I am come into this world.\\ The coming of
Christ, the Light, reveals human hearts. Publicans and sinners
were made to see, while "Jews" and Pharisees, who claimed to be
enlightened, were left in darkness, because they closed their
eyes. Those blinded are those who would not see.
(PNT 367)
03336
# Joh 9:40-41
\\Are we blind also?\\ The Pharisees ask this. They were not
blind by necessity. They could see if they would. Hence they
were responsible. Had they been without opportunity they would
have no moral responsibility, but as they had opportunity to see
and claimed to see, their "sin remaineth."
(PNT 367)
03338
# Joh 10:1
SUMMARY OF JOHN 10
\\The Good Shepherd\\
The Sheepfold
The Shepherd of the Sheep
The Hireling
The Feast of Dedication
The Jews Seek to Stone Jesus
He Teaches Beyond Jordan
\\He that entereth not by the door into the sheepfold.\\ The
sheepfold is a figure of the church, the door into which is
Christ. The sheepfolds of the East are large enclosures, open to
the sky, but walled around with reeds or stones or brick in
order to afford a protection against robbers, wolves, and other
beasts of prey. There is a large door in which the shepherd
enters with the sheep.
(PNT 368)
03339
# Joh 10:2
\\He that entereth by the door.\\ The one who comes in by the
door is the shepherd. The figure is very plain to those familiar
with Eastern sheepfolds. The door is for the shepherd and the
sheep, while those who get in otherwise are robbers who seek to
prey upon the sheep.
(PNT 368)
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# Joh 10:3
\\To him the porter openeth.\\ The gatekeeper whose business
is to guard the entrance. This servant was furnished with arms
to fight off intruders, but the shepherd he would let in. It is
not certain that Christ intended to make the porter a figure of
any spiritual thing, but if so, he would represent God, who has
decided who shall enter through the door.
\\And the sheep hear his voice.\\ This is true to the letter.
The sheep in the East are so tame and so trained that they
follow their keeper with the utmost docility. He leads them
forth from the fold just where he pleases. The Eastern shepherds
lead their sheep, while in our country we drive them.
\\He calleth his own sheep by name.\\ This corresponds
exactly with the facts of Eastern shepherd life. They give names
to sheep as we do to horses, cows, and dogs. "Passing by a flock
of sheep," says Mr. Hartley, "I asked the shepherd to call one
of his sheep. He instantly did so, and it left its pasturage and
its companions, and ran to the shepherd with a promptitude and
signs of pleasure that I never witnessed before."
(PNT 368)
03341
# Joh 10:4-5
\\The sheep follow him: for they know his voice.\\ Also
literally true in the East as all travellers testify, but a
\\stranger they will not follow\\, because his voice is strange.
So true is it that when a traveller has changed dress with the
shepherd for an experiment, they still have followed the
disguised shepherd's voice and refused to listen to the voice of
a stranger in the garb of their own shepherd.
(PNT 368)
03343
# Joh 10:6
\\This parable spoke Jesus to them.\\ The Greek word
\\[paroimia]\\ rendered here "parable" is not so rendered
elsewhere. It is rather a simile.
(PNT 368)
03344
# Joh 10:7
\\I am the door of the sheep.\\ Verses 1-5 speak of shepherds
in general. These shepherds enter into the fold and go out by
the same door as the sheep. Christ is that door; "the door of
the sheep," the one door for all, both sheep and shepherds.
There is no other way in, for "there is no other name, under
heaven, given among men, whereby we must be saved."
# Ac 4:12
(PNT 368)
03345
# Joh 10:8
\\All that ever came before me are thieves and robbers.\\
Abbott holds that the idea is "All who came, not entering
through the door, but claiming to be before me, having the
precedence, independent of me, are thieves and robbers." This
seems to harmonize with the context, and is probably the
Saviour's meaning. He included the Jewish rabbis, the Greek
philosophers, the pretended prophets, and the "Infallible Pope."
These all refuse to bow to his authority.
\\But the sheep did not hear them.\\ The true sheep.
(PNT 369)
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# Joh 10:9
\\By me if any man shall enter in, he shall be saved.\\
Christ is at once the door, the shepherd and the pasture. His
pasture is the bread of life and the water of life.
# 6:35,48 4:14
(PNT 369)
03347
# Joh 10:10
\\The thief cometh not, but to steal.\\ All those who enter
otherwise than by the door wish to pray upon the flock.
(PNT 369)
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# Joh 10:11
\\I am the good shepherd.\\ This title, applied to Jehovah in
# Ps 23:1-6 Eze 34:12
Christ here applies to himself. The mark of the good shepherd is
"that he giveth his life for his sheep." In that unsettled
country the shepherd had often to defend his flock.
(PNT 369)
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# Joh 10:12
\\But he that is an hireling . . . leaveth the sheep, and
\\fleeth.\\ It is not the bare fact of a man receiving pay that
makes him a hireling. "The labourer is worthy of his hire."
# Lu 10:7
He is a hireling who would not work were it not for this hire,
and who works where the hire is highest rather than were he can
do the most good.
(PNT 369)