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| | |And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. | | |And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. |
| − | |Jesus saw a man who was blind from birth. | + | |And as He was walking along, He saw a man who had been blind since birth. |
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| | |And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? | | |And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? |
| − | |And his disciples asked him, "Master, who sinned - this man or his parents, which caused his blindness?" | + | |His disciples asked him, "Rabbi, whose sin caused his blindness? His or his parents?" |
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| | |Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. | | |Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. |
| − | |Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned; it is the work of God that is present in him." | + | |Jesus answered, "Neither this man nor his parents sinned. On the contrary, this was so that the works of God could be brightly illuminated in him." |
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| | |I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. | | |I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. |
| − | |I must pursue the works of God, while it is still day; the night is coming, during which no man will be able to work. | + | |I must pursue the works of the one who sent me while the daylight is here. The night is coming when no man will be able to do those works. |
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| | |As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. | | |As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. |
| − | |As long as I am here, I am the light of the world. | + | |While I am in the world, I am the light of the world. |
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| | |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, | | |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, |
| − | |Jesus finished speaking and spat on the ground, making clay out of the mud that formed. He anointed they eyes of the blind man with the clay. | + | |As He said these things, He spat on the ground, made clay with His spit, and spread the clay on the eyes of the blind man. |
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| | |And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. | | |And said unto him, Go, wash in the pool of Siloam, (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came seeing. |
| − | |"Wash yourself in the lake of Siloam," Jesus said to him. The man went there, cleaned himself, and regained his eyesight. | + | |He told the man, "Go wash this off in the pool of Siloam (which means, 'Having been Set Apart')." So he went there, washed himself, and his eyesight returned. |
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| | |The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? | | |The neighbours therefore, and they which before had seen him that he was blind, said, Is not this he that sat and begged? |
| − | |The neighbors who knew he had been blind, wondered and asked, "Is this not the man who begged?" | + | |Then his neighbors who knew he had been blind wondered, "This is the man who sat and begged, isn't it?" |
| − | | | + | |Rhetorical question implying "yes." |
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