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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,

KJV

ταῦτα εἰπὼν ἔπτυσεν χαμαὶ καὶ ἐποίησεν πηλὸν ἐκ τοῦ πτύσματος, καὶ ἐπέχρισεν αὐτοῦ τὸν πηλὸν ἐπὶ τοὺς ὀφθαλμούς,

Greek NT

Hæc cum dixisset, exspuit in terram, et fecit lutum ex sputo, et linivit lutum super oculos ejus,

Vulgate

When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and anointed his eyes with the clay,

ASV

When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes,

Douay-Rheims

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In the original Greek

14 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.

αὐτός
autos
pronoun · 5564×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
λέγω
lego
verb · 2256×
οὗτος
outos
demonstrative · 1380×
πηλός
pelos
noun · 6×
ποιέω
poieo
verb · 569×
πτύσμα
ptusma
noun · 1×
πτύω
ptuo
verb · 3×
χαμαί
chamai
adverb · 2×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ἐπί
epi
preposition · 888×
ἐπιχρίω
epichrio
verb · 2×
ὀφθαλμός
ophthalmos
noun · 100×
ὁ
o
article · 19778×

Textual variants

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

minor
SBLGNT: ἐπέχρισεν | Treg/NIV/RP: ἐπέχρισεν | WH: ἐπέθηκεν
  • ἐπέχρισεν — SBLGNT
  • ἐπέχρισεν — Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27), Robinson-Pierpont
  • ἐπέθηκεν — Westcott-Hort
source: sblgnt-apparatus
trivial
SBLGNT: αὐτοῦ | WH/Treg/NIV: αὐτοῦ
  • αὐτοῦ — SBLGNT
  • αὐτοῦ — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
source: sblgnt-apparatus
notable
SBLGNT: ὀφθαλμούς | WH/Treg/NIV: ὀφθαλμούς | RP: + τοῦ τυφλοῦ
  • ὀφθαλμούς — SBLGNT
  • ὀφθαλμούς — Westcott-Hort, Tregelles, Reader's GNT (NA27)
  • + τοῦ τυφλοῦ — Robinson-Pierpont
source: sblgnt-apparatus

Miracle

Historic Christian voices

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

§1151Signs taken up by Christ. In his preaching the Lord Jesus often makes use of the signs of creation to make known the mysteries of the Kingdom of God.17 He performs healings and illustrates his preaching with physical signs or symbolic gestures.18 He gives new meaning to the deeds and signs of the Old Covenant, above all to the Exodus and the Passover,19 for he himself is the me…
§1504Often Jesus asks the sick to believe.107 He makes use of signs to heal: spittle and the laying on of hands,108 mud and washing.109 The sick try to touch him, "for power came forth from him and healed them all."110 and so in the sacraments Christ continues to "touch" us in order to heal us.
Homilies on Matthew · 2 passages
2. Afterwards again He refutes it in another way also. For as at first He brought in David, by the dignity of the person quelling their pride; so when He had stopped their mouths, and had put down their boasting, then He adds also the more appropriate refutation. And of what sort is this? Do you not know, that in the temple the priests profane the Sabbath, and are blameless? Ma…
2. What then did they? They go forth, it is said, and take counsel together to slay Him. For the Pharisees, says the Scripture, went out and held a council against Him, how they might destroy Him. They had received no injury, yet they went about to slay Him. So great an evil is envy. For not against strangers only, but even against our own, is it ever warring. And Mark says, th…
1. Perhaps we seemed to you the other day needlessly hard upon you and burdensome, using too sharp language, and extending too far our reproaches against the sluggishness of the many. Now if we had done this merely from a desire to vex you, each of you would with cause have been angry; but if, looking to your advantage, we neglected in our speech what might gratify you, if you …
1. A fearful thing is sin, fearful, and the ruin of the soul, and the mischief oftentimes through its excess has overflowed and attacked men's bodies also. For since for the most part when the soul is diseased we feel no pain, but if the body receive though but a little hurt, we use every exertion to free it from its infirmity, because we are sensible of the infirmity, therefor…
2. But what do you say, O man? Christ became a slave for you, having taken the form of a slave, Philippians 2:7 and was crucified, and rose again. And when you ought for this reason to adore Him risen and admire His loving kindness; because what neither father, nor friend, nor son, did for you, all this the Lord wrought for you, the enemy and offender — when, I say, you ought t…

Cross-references

  • 1Chr 14:14 — Therefore David enquired again of God; and God said unto him, Go not up after them; turn away from them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
  • 2Kgs 2:21 — And he went forth unto the spring of the waters, and cast the salt in there, and said, Thus saith the LORD, I have healed these waters; there shall not be from thence any more death or barren land.
  • 2Sam 5:23 — And when David enquired of the LORD, he said, Thou shalt not go up; but fetch a compass behind them, and come upon them over against the mulberry trees.
  • Isa 38:21 — For Isaiah had said, Let them take a lump of figs, and lay it for a plaister upon the boil, and he shall recover.
  • John 9:11 — He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.
  • 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?
  • John 11:37 — And some of them said, Could not this man, which opened the eyes of the blind, have caused that even this man should not have died?
  • Mark 7:33 — And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
  • Mark 7:33 — And he took him aside from the multitude, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spit, and touched his tongue;
  • Mark 8:23 — And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
  • Mark 8:23 — And he took the blind man by the hand, and led him out of the town; and when he had spit on his eyes, and put his hands upon him, he asked him if he saw ought.
  • Matt 20:34 — So Jesus had compassion on them, and touched their eyes: and immediately their eyes received sight, and they followed him.
  • Rev 3:18 — I counsel thee to buy of me gold tried in the fire, that thou mayest be rich; and white raiment, that thou mayest be clothed, and that the shame of thy nakedness do not appear; and anoint thine eyes w