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NASB | John 9:24 ¶ So a second time they called the man who had been blind, and said to him, "Give glory to God; we know that this man is a sinner." |
AMPLIFIED 2015 | John 9:24 ¶ So a second time they called the man who had been [born] blind, and said to him, "Give God glory and praise [for your sight]! We know this Man [Jesus] is a sinner [separated from God]." |
Subject: Do you yet say that Jesus was just a man |
Bible Note: Stokey, God doesn't normally require this kind of workaround to make a thing clear, especially a thing on the order of Jesus' deity. The bible tends to be explicit, not implicit: "Take heed therefore to yourselves and to all the flock, over the which the Holy Spirit has made you overseers, to feed the church of God, which he has purchased with his own blood." (Acts 20.28, KJV). Try this cool thing: "Who has planned and done it, calling forth the generations from the beginning? I Jehovah am the first and the last; I am He." (ISA 41.4, LITV). Who is that? It's Jehovah, of course. "So says Jehovah, the King of Israel, and his Redeemer, Jehovah of Hosts: I am the First, and I am the Last; and there is no God except Me." (Isa 44.6 LITV) Jehovah again. "Listen to Me, O Jacob, and Israel My called: I am He; I am the First; surely I am the Last." (Isa 48.12, LITV). Jehovah redux. Now to... "I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending, says the Lord, the One who is, and who was, and who is coming, the Almighty." (Rev 1.8, LITV) Jehovah once again. "And He said to me, It is done! I am the Alpha and the Omega, the Beginning and the Ending. To the one thirsting, I will freely give of the fountain of the Water of Life." (Rev 21.6, LITV) Who is this? Jehovah? Okay, but who is spoken of in this next verse? "And to the angel of the assembly of Smyrna, write: These things says the First and the Last, Who became dead, and lived:" Stokey, this world is so bonkers. Every day it's "Anything but Jesus." But at the end of the day it has more to with what you believe than what you don't. Colin |