John 9:41
Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye should have no sin: but now ye say, We see; therefore your sin remaineth.
KJV
εἶπεν αὐτοῖς ὁ Ἰησοῦς· εἰ τυφλοὶ ἦτε, οὐκ ἂν εἴχετε ἁμαρτίαν· νῦν δὲ λέγετε ὅτι βλέπομεν· ἡ ἁμαρτία ὑμῶν μένει.
Greek NT
Dixit eis Jesus : Si cæci essetis, non haberetis peccatum. Nunc vero dicitis, Quia videmus : peccatum vestrum manet.
Vulgate
Jesus said unto them, If ye were blind, ye would have no sin: but now ye say, We see: your sin remaineth.
ASV
Jesus said to them: If you were blind, you should not have sin: but now you say: We see. Your sin remaineth.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
17 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
Textual variants
1 variant unit attested by manuscript witnesses and modern critical editions.
- ἡ — SBLGNT
- ἡ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
- + οὖν — Robinson-Pierpont
Historic Christian voices
3 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
§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…
Cross-references
- 1John 1:8 — If we say that we have no sin, we deceive ourselves, and the truth is not in us.
- 1John 2:9 — He that saith he is in the light, and hateth his brother, is in darkness even until now.
- 2Pet 2:21 — For it had been better for them not to have known the way of righteousness, than, after they have known it, to turn from the holy commandment delivered unto them.
- Heb 10:26 — For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
- Heb 10:26 — For if we sin wilfully after that we have received the knowledge of the truth, there remaineth no more sacrifice for sins,
- Isa 5:21 — Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
- Isa 5:21 — Woe unto them that are wise in their own eyes, and prudent in their own sight!
- Jas 4:17 — Therefore to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him it is sin.
- Jer 2:35 — Yet thou sayest, Because I am innocent, surely his anger shall turn from me. Behold, I will plead with thee, because thou sayest, I have not sinned.
- Jer 8:8 — How do ye say, We are wise, and the law of the LORD is with us? Lo, certainly in vain made he it; the pen of the scribes is in vain.
- John 15:22 — If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
- John 15:22 — If I had not come and spoken unto them, they had not had sin: but now they have no cloak for their sin.
- Luke 12:47 — And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
- Luke 12:47 — And that servant, which knew his lord’s will, and prepared not himself, neither did according to his will, shall be beaten with many stripes.
- Luke 18:14 — I tell you, this man went down to his house justified rather than the other: for every one that exalteth himself shall be abased; and he that humbleth himself shall be exalted.
- Prov 26:12 — Seest thou a man wise in his own conceit? there is more hope of a fool than of him.