John 9:40

And some of the Pharisees which were with him heard these words, and said unto him, Are we blind also?
KJV

ἤκουσαν ἐκ τῶν Φαρισαίων οἱ μετ’ αὐτοῦ ὄντες, καὶ εἶπαν αὐτῷ· μὴ καὶ ἡμεῖς τυφλοί ἐσμεν;
Greek NT

Et audierunt quidam ex pharisæis qui cum ipso erant, et dixerunt ei : Numquid et nos cæci sumus ?
Vulgate

Those of the Pharisees who were with him heard these things, and said unto him, Are we also blind?
ASV

And some of the Pharisees, who were with him, heard: and they said unto him: Are we also blind?
Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

12 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

Φαρισαῖος

pharisaios

noun · 101×

αὐτός

autos

pronoun · 5564×

εἰμί

eimi

verb · 2461×

καί

kai

conjunction · 8973×

λέγω

lego

verb · 2256×

μή

particle · 1033×

μετά

Textual variants

2 variant units attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.

minor

SBLGNT: ἤκουσαν | WH/Treg/NIV: ἤκουσαν | RP: Καὶ ἤκουσαν

ἤκουσαν — SBLGNT
ἤκουσαν — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
Καὶ ἤκουσαν — Robinson-Pierpont

source: sblgnt-apparatus

minor

SBLGNT: μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ὄντες | WH/Treg/NIV: μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ὄντες | RP: ὄντες μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ

μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ὄντες — SBLGNT
μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ ὄντες — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
ὄντες μετ᾽ αὐτοῦ — Robinson-Pierpont

source: sblgnt-apparatus

Historic Christian voices

4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.

Catechism of the Catholic Church

§588Jesus scandalized the Pharisees by eating with tax collectors and sinners as familiarly as with themselves.364 Against those among them "who trusted in themselves that they were righteous and despised others", Jesus affirmed: "I have not come to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance."365 He went further by proclaiming before the Pharisees that, since sin is universal, t…

Adam Clarke's Commentary on the Bible

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

Cross-references

1Tim 1:7 — Desiring to be teachers of the law; understanding neither what they say, nor whereof they affirm.
Jer 6:10 — To whom shall I speak, and give warning, that they may hear? behold, their ear is uncircumcised, and they cannot hearken: behold, the word of the LORD is unto them a reproach; they have no delight in
John 7:49 — But this people who knoweth not the law are cursed.
Luke 11:45 — Then answered one of the lawyers, and said unto him, Master, thus saying thou reproachest us also.
Mark 2:17 — When Jesus heard it, he saith unto them, They that are whole have no need of the physician, but they that are sick: I came not to call the righteous, but sinners to repentance.
Matt 3:7 — But when he saw many of the Pharisees and Sadducees come to his baptism, he said unto them, O generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee from the wrath to come?
Matt 15:12 — Then came his disciples, and said unto him, Knowest thou that the Pharisees were offended, after they heard this saying?
Prov 16:25 — There is a way that seemeth right unto a man, but the end thereof are the ways of death.
Rev 3:17 — Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rev 3:17 — Because thou sayest, I am rich, and increased with goods, and have need of nothing; and knowest not that thou art wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked:
Rom 2:19 — And art confident that thou thyself art a guide of the blind, a light of them which are in darkness,