What Does John 9:30 Mean in the King James?
The man answered and said unto them, Why herein is a marvellous thing, that ye know not from whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.
The analysis reads the King James wording.
King James Version The King James Version, first published in 1611. Selah Verse shows the standard text.
THE KEY
The Greek word for “know” carries the sense of “see,” so the man’s opened eyes expose the leaders’ ignorance as a failure of perception.
THE MEANING
What opens your sight can be real before authority can explain its source. The man knows his eyes have been opened, while his questioners say they do not know where the opener is from.
WHAT THIS UNDOES
The lie is that an authority’s explanation is what makes your experience real; the man’s clear knowledge remains even when the authorities cannot account for it.
THE ROOT
οἴδατε
oidate
GROWS FROM
εἴδω
eídō
To see, behold, or perceive; οἶδα is historically a perfect form meaning “have seen,” hence “know.”
The Greek word for “know” carries the trace of sight within it. The man’s opened eyes ground his knowledge in perception, while the questioners’ “we do not know” reveals what they fail to see.
ALSO GROWS
eídō: See, behold, perceive.
εἴδω
This verb-family beneath οἶδα makes “know” carry the sense of having seen.
eîdos: That which is seen; form, appearance.
εἶδος
The same word-family names both seeing and what is seen, tying perception to the man’s knowledge of what has happened.
THE PATTERN
When sight or understanding is opened, its visible effects bear witness beyond the limits of those watching.
To open the blind eyes, to bring out the prisoners from the prison, and them that sit in darkness out of the prison house.The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:Now when they saw the boldness of Peter and John, and perceived that they were unlearned and ignorant men, they marvelled; and they took knowledge of them, that they had been with Jesus.THE THREAD
He answered and said, Whether he be a sinner or no, I know not: one thing I know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.The man uses the same Greek verb for “know” that appears in “ye know not.” The one who was blind speaks from what he now sees, while the sighted questioners profess not to know.
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