John Chapter 9 verse 9 Holy Bible
Others said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am `he'.
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Some said, It is he: others said, No, but he is like him. He said, I am he.
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Some said, It is he; others said, No, but he is like him: *he* said, It is I.
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Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.
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Others were saying, "It is he." Still others were saying, "He looks like him." He said, "I am he."
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others said -- `This is he;' and others -- `He is like to him;' he himself said, -- `I am `he'.'
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Pulpit Commentary
Pulpit CommentaryVerse 9. - Some said, It is he: others, No but he is like him. So great a change might well have provoked inquiry as to his identity, and the two classes of speakers add amazing vivacity to the picture. He (ἐκείνος) - the man who now stood forth as the central object of the excited group (see Westcott for the use of ἐκεῖνος elsewhere in St. John: John 2:21; John 5:11; John 10:6; John 13:30; John 19:21) - rather than "he himself" - he said, I am (he) that sat and begged. The man settles the doubt offhand, I am he. The evidence of identity, if the question be raised, is at once settled. The vivacity and verisimilitude of the scene reduce the labored parallel with St. Paul to literary trifling.
Ellicott's Commentary
Ellicott's Commentary for English Readers(9)He is like him.--The more probable reading is, No; but he is like him. It is not that these speakers agree with some hesitation with those who assert the identity. They oppose to it their own opinion, that it is a case of resemblance only. He himself sets the question at rest by declaring that he is the same person.The verse, and indeed the whole narrative, is one of the many striking instances of the natural form which is taken by the narrative of one personally acquainted with all the facts. We may suppose that St. John recorded this from the lips of the man himself. We can still see the whole picture;--the man returning, observed by one or two neighbours, who spread the story; the excitement of their curiosity; the question whether he is really the same; some struck by the points of identity in the features, and declaring that he is; others struck by the features of the opened eyes lighting up the whole face, and declaring that he is not; the simple declaration of the man himself, which is at once accepted as decisive--all this passes before us just as it occurred.
