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John 9:9–10

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Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.
Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?
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  1. Ecclesiastes 11:5Rank 1 from verse 10
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    5As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all.

  2. Mark 4:27Rank 2 from verse 10
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    27And should sleep, and rise night and day, and the seed should spring and grow up, he knoweth not how.

  3. 1 Corinthians 15:35Rank 3 from verse 10
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    35But some man will say, How are the dead raised up? and with what body do they come?

  4. John 3:9Rank 4 from verse 10
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    9Nicodemus answered and said unto him, How can these things be?

  5. John 9:15Rank 5 from verse 10
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    15Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.

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John 9:9

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like

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Sense 1: Similar or of the same kind; in the same manner; likely. Sense 2: A like person or thing; an equal or counterpart. Sense 3: To please, choose, or regard with favour.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

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but

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Sense 1: However; marking contrast or qualification. Sense 2: Except or unless; excluding all others or alternatives. Sense 3: Only; no more than what follows.

Meaning drawn from: KJV context and cross-references · Skeat 1893 · Webster 1828

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John 9:10

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eyes

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The bodily organs of sight; by extension, sight, attention, observation, perception, understanding, desire, judgment, estimation, favour, or the presence and view before which something occurs.

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opened

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Past-tense, participial, or adjectival form of open, meaning to uncover, reveal, or explain.

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9:8¶ The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged?

9:9Some said, This is he: others said, He is like him: but he said, I am he.

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9:10Therefore said they unto him, How were thine eyes opened?

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9:11He 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.

9:12Then said they unto him, Where is he? He said, I know not.

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