MORE SPOKEN ENGLISH – MORE ABOUT JESUS:  #21 Jesus Heals a Blind Man (part 2)

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<< For help understanding the meaning, read this story from a Bible written in your language.  The story is found in:

John 9:10-17



V V V V MORE ABOUT JESUS  (maj-21.txt / maj-21.mp3) V V V V


10 They asked, "Who healed you? What happened?"  (They asked, "Who healed you? What happened?")

11 He told them, "The man they call Jesus made mud and smoothed it over my eyes and told me,   (He told them, "The man they call Jesus made mud and smoothed it over my eyes and told me,)

'Go to the pool and wash off the mud.'  ('Go to the pool and wash off the mud.')

11 He told them, "The man they call Jesus made mud and smoothed it over my eyes and told me, 'Go to the pool and wash off the mud.'  (He told them, "The man they call Jesus made mud and smoothed it over my eyes and told me, 'Go to the pool and wash off the mud.')

I went and washed, and now I can see!"  (I went and washed, and now I can see!")

12 "Where is he now?" they asked.  ("Where is he now?" they asked.)

"I don't know," he replied.  ("I don't know," he replied.)

13 Then they took the man to the Pharisees.  (Then they took the man to the Pharisees.)

14 Now as it happened, Jesus had healed the man on a Sabbath.  (Now as it happened, Jesus had healed the man on a Sabbath.)

15 The Pharisees asked the man all about it.  (The Pharisees asked the man all about it.)

So he told them, "He smoothed the mud over my eyes,  (So he told them, "He smoothed the mud over my eyes,)

and when it was washed away, I could see!"  (and when it was washed away, I could see!")

So he told them, "He smoothed the mud over my eyes, and when it was washed away, I could see!"  (So he told them, "He smoothed the mud over my eyes, and when it was washed away, I could see!")

16 Some of the Pharisees said, "This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath."  (Some of the Pharisees said, "This man Jesus is not from God, for he is working on the Sabbath.")

Others said, "But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?"  (Others said, "But how could an ordinary sinner do such miraculous signs?")

So there was a deep division of opinion among them.  (So there was a deep division of opinion among them.)

17 Then the Pharisees once again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded,  (Then the Pharisees once again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded,)

"This man who opened your eyes--who do you say he is?"  ("This man who opened your eyes--who do you say he is?")

17 Then the Pharisees once again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded, "This man who opened your eyes--who do you say he is?"  (Then the Pharisees once again questioned the man who had been blind and demanded, "This man who opened your eyes--who do you say he is?")

The man replied, "I think he must be a prophet."  (The man replied, "I think he must be a prophet.")


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Scripture quotations are taken from the Holy Bible, New Living Translation, copyright 1996. Used by permission of Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., Wheaton, Illinois 60189. All rights reserved. 


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VOCABULARY  (Suggestion: To understand the meaning better, read  John 9:10-17 from a Bible written in your language.)

a (an)
about
again
all
among
and
as
asked (to ask)
away
be (to be)
been (to be)
blind
but
call (to call)
can
could
deep (deep, deeper, deepest, deeply)
demanded (to demand)
division
do (to do)
don't (= do not)
eye
for
from
go (to go)
God
had (to have)
happened (to happen)
he
healed (to heal)
how
I
is
it
Jesus = a man’s name
know (to know)
made (to make)
man
me
miraculous (miraculous, more, most miraculous, miraculously)
mud
must
my
not
now
of
off
on
once
opened (to open)
ordinary (ordinary, more, most ordinary, ordinarily)
others
over
Pharisee = a religious leader
pool
prophet
questioned (to question)
replied (to reply)
Sabbath = a religious day
said (to say)
say (to say)
see (to see)
sign
sinner
smoothed (to smooth)
so
some
such
the
them
then
there
they
think (to think)
this
to
to ask
to be
to call
to demand
to do
to go
to happen
to have
to heal
to know
to make
to open
to question
to reply
to say
to see
to smooth
to take
to tell
to think
to wash
to work
told (to tell)
took (to take)
was (to be)
wash (to wash)
washed (to wash)
went (to go)
what
when
where
who
working (to work)
you
your