King James Version
John 9:19 in the King James Version says “And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?” — study this verse from John chapter 9 with commentary, cross-references, and original Greek word analysis.
“And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?”
John 9:19 · KJV
They say unto the blind man again, What sayest thou of him, that he hath opened thine eyes? He said, He is a prophet.
But the Jews did not believe concerning him, that he had been blind, and received his sight, until they called the parents of him that had received his sight.
And they asked them, saying, Is this your son, who ye say was born blind? how then doth he now see?
His parents answered them and said, We know that this is our son, and that he was born blind:
But by what means he now seeth, we know not; or who hath opened his eyes, we know not: he is of age; ask him: he shall speak for himself.
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“And”
G2532and, also, even, so then, too, etc.; often used in connection (or composition) with other particles or small words
“them”
G846the reflexive pronoun self, used (alone or in the comparative g1438) of the third person, and (with the proper personal pronoun) of the other persons
“say”
G3004properly, to "lay" forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas g2036 and g5346 generally refer to an
“son”
G5207a "son" (sometimes of animals), used very widely of immediate, remote or figuratively, kinship
“say”
G3004properly, to "lay" forth, i.e., (figuratively) relate (in words (usually of systematic or set discourse; whereas g2036 and g5346 generally refer to an
“was born”
G1080to procreate (properly, of the father, but by extension of the mother); figuratively, to regenerate
“how”
G4459an interrogative particle of manner; in what way? (sometimes the question is indirect, how?); also as exclamation, how much!
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