John 10:21
Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
KJV
ἄλλοι ἔλεγον· ταῦτα τὰ ῥήματα οὐκ ἔστιν δαιμονιζομένου· μὴ δαιμόνιον δύναται τυφλῶν ὀφθαλμοὺς ἀνοῖξαι;
Greek NT
Alii dicebant : Hæc verba non sunt dæmonium habentis : numquid dæmonium potest cæcorum oculos aperire ?
Vulgate
Others said, These are not the sayings of one possessed with a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?
ASV
Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἄλλοι — SBLGNT
- ἄλλοι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Nestle-Aland 27, Robinson-Pierpont
- + δὲ — Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀνοῖξαι — SBLGNT
- ἀνοῖξαι — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- ἀνοίγειν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§595Among the religious authorities of Jerusalem, not only were the Pharisee Nicodemus and the prominent Joseph of Arimathea both secret disciples of Jesus, but there was also long-standing dissension about him, so much so that St. John says of these authorities on the very eve of Christ's Passion, "many.. . believed in him", though very imperfectly.378 This is not surprising, if o…
Cross-references
- Exod 4:11 — And the LORD said unto him, Who hath made man’s mouth? or who maketh the dumb, or deaf, or the seeing, or the blind? have not I the LORD?
- Exod 8:19 — Then the magicians said unto Pharaoh, This is the finger of God: and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them; as the LORD had said.
- Isa 35:5 — Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
- John 9:6 — When 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,
- John 9:32 — Since the world began was it not heard that any man opened the eyes of one that was born blind.
- Matt 4:24 — And his fame went throughout all Syria: and they brought unto him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and those which were possessed with devils, and those which were lu
- Matt 11:5 — The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
- Prov 20:12 — The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the LORD hath made even both of them.
- Ps 94:9 — He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? he that formed the eye, shall he not see?
- Ps 146:8 — The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous: