💫WEB · John 9:7

What does John 9:7 mean?

"and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing."

— John 9:7 (World English Bible)

Surrounding context

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I must work the works of him who sent me, while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.

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While I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”

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

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and said to him, “Go, wash in the pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So he went away, washed, and came back seeing.

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The neighbors therefore, and those who saw that he was blind before, said, “Isn’t this he who sat and begged?”

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Others were saying, “It is he.” Still others were saying, “He looks like him.” He said, “I am he.”

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They therefore were asking him, “How were your eyes opened?”

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