Discovery BoxJohn 9:30-33 
Context9:30 The man replied, 1 “This is a remarkable thing, 2 that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see! 3 9:31 We know that God doesn’t listen to 4 sinners, but if anyone is devout 5 and does his will, God 6 listens to 7 him. 8 9:32 Never before 9 has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see. 10 9:33 If this man 11 were not from God, he could do nothing.”
1 tn Grk “The man answered and said to them.” This has been simplified in the translation to “The man replied.”
2 tn Grk “For in this is a remarkable thing.”
3 tn Grk “and he opened my eyes” (an idiom referring to restoration of sight).
4 tn Grk “God does not hear.”
5 tn Or “godly.”
6 tn Grk “he”; the referent (God) has been specified in the translation for clarity.
7 tn Or “hears.”
8 tn Grk “this one.”
9 tn Or “Never from the beginning of time,” Grk “From eternity.”
10 tn Grk “someone opening the eyes of a man born blind” (“opening the eyes” is an idiom referring to restoration of sight).
11 tn Grk “this one.”
