Going Deeper With CHRIST : JOHN 9:35 --- WHO IS BLIND ?

JOHN 9:35 --- WHO IS BLIND ?

PAPYRUS 75

John 9:35 ... The Man Born Blind

JESUS heard

that they had cast him out;

and when HE+ had found him,

HE+ said unto him,

Dost thou believe

on the SON+ of GOD?

John 9:35

He answered and said,

Who is he, Lord,

that I might believe on HIM+?

And JESUS said unto him,

Thou hast both seen HIM+,

and it is HE+ that talketh with thee.

And he said, LORD, I believe.

And he worshipped HIM+.

John 9: 36-38

+ + +

What a distress to be born blind!

What a greater distress to CHOOSE

to be blind ... spiritually !

The Westcott-Hort and Tischendorf revision camps changed GOD , Theou, to MAN, anthropou, in their revised Greek Text of John 9:35... changing the very words of The LORD JESUS CHRIST.

They based their revisions upon these four Codices: Sinaiticus, Vaticanus, Bezae, and Washingtonensis. That is: four uncial manuscripts out of 49 uncials which contain the book of John, according to NA-26th introduction, p.49.

They also cited minuscule 579 ( Hoskier's "Paris-97" , a 13th century ms ) , Sahidic-Coptic ms, Syriac-Sinaiticus ms, and an Old Latin ms "d" !

THAT IS THE SUM TOTAL of Tischendorf and Westcott-Hort's evidence for making SON+ of GOD into son of man.

The revisers swayed a huge number of Bible publishers , scholars, and translators to adopt their new-found reading.

Did they now have more enlightenment

than HUNDREDS of other uncials, minuscules , manuscripts in Greek, Latin, Aramaic, and Bohairic, and more accuracy than the ancient versions and Early Christian writers such Tertullian*,

... COMBINED ?

*[ See Tertullian's writings: Ante-Nicene Fathers, vol. 3, Against Praxeas, chapter 22, p. 618. ]

The COMBINED number of manuscripts

· of a RELIABLE nature ,

· spread about a wide geographic area,

· spread over several centuries,

· spread through a variety languages,

· distributed under the watchful eye of an assortment of church families

· quoted verbatim by at least one reputable church apologist, Tertullian

should give pause

to those evaluating the WEIGHT

of the manuscript evidence.

It is of great significance that the "son of man" reading is found in LOCALIZED manuscripts, all characterized by the Alexandrian text-types, under the watchful eye of a limited amount of church families, perhaps based in Egypt.

Later evidence ...

is found in Nestle-Aland's 26th edition. Two more manuscripts have "son of man."

What are they? One is Papyrus 66 and the other is Papyrus 75.

Are they RELIABLE witnesses to the text ?

Papyrus 66 is early, yes, but horribly corrupted with a large amount of corrections of every sort done by an assortment of scribes following an even greater assortment of exemplars and text-types. The age of Papyrus 66 is debatable, with the latest scholarly work by Brent Nongbi placing it in the middle of the 4th century.

Philip W. Comfort and David P. Barrett included a print out of the entire Papyrus 66 in their ( revised, 2001 ) book, The Text of the Earliest New Testament Greek Manuscripts. It shows the incredible number of errors and corrections in it, errors which even a novice is able to discern.

Papyrus 75's scribal work is much more professionally executed; it does not exude the errors that Papyrus 66 does. Unfortunately, Papyrus 75 is extremely similar to Codex B ( Vaticanus).

Like Papyrus 66, it is now thought to be a product of the 4th century. [ See Wikipedia article on Papyrus 75 ].

Thus, to summarize, we are left with:

· 4 ( out of 49 ) uncials,

· 2 Papyri ( one unreliable and the other a mirror-image of the uncial Codex B ) ,

· and a tiny handful of minuscules

which are the basis for changing the words of The LORD JESUS CHRIST as HE+ reveals His+ identity to the man born blind who received his sight at His+ hands.

Are we, too, born blind ... or born ANEW ?

+ + +

Here are the Alexandrian-based modern translations which publish "son of man" instead of "SON+ of GOD," all based on the evidence above.

JOHN 9:35

Courtesy of Biblegateway.com

AMP

Jesus heard that they had put him out [of the synagogue], and finding him, He asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

AMPC

Jesus heard that they had put him out, and meeting him He said, Do you believe in and adhere to the Son of Man or the Son of God?

CSB

Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, and when he found him, he asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

CEB

Jesus heard they had expelled the man born blind. Finding him, Jesus said, “Do you believe in the Human One?”

CJB

Yeshua heard that they had thrown the man out. He found him and said, “Do you trust in the Son of Man?”

CEV

When Jesus heard what had happened, he went and found the man. Then Jesus asked, “Do you have faith in the Son of Man?”

DLNT

Jesus heard that they threw him outside, and having found him, said “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

ERV

When Jesus heard that they had forced the man to leave, he found him and asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

ESV

Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

ESVUK

Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

EXB

When Jesus heard that they had ·thrown [cast; driven] him out [^Cof the synagogue], Jesus found him and said, “Do you ·believe [trust] in the Son of Man [^Ca title for the Messiah; Dan. 7:13–14]?”

Jesus heard that the Jews had thrown the man out of the synagogue. So when Jesus found the man, he asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

GNT

When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

HCSB

When Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out, He found him and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

ICB

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So Jesus found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

ISV

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out. So when he found him, he asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

PHILLIPS

Jesus heard that they had expelled him and when he had found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

LEB

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and finding him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

TLB

When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and said, “Do you believe in the Messiah?”

MSG

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and went and found him. He asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

MOUNCE

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NOG

Yeshua heard that the Jews had thrown the man out of the synagogue. So when Yeshua found the man, he asked him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NABRE

When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, he found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NASB

Jesus heard that they had put him out, and finding him, He said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NCV

When Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, Jesus found him and said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NET

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NIRV

Jesus heard that the Pharisees had thrown the man out of the synagogue. When Jesus found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NIV

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NIVUK

Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, and when he found him, he said, ‘Do you believe in the Son of Man?’

NLT

When Jesus heard what had happened, he found the man and asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NRSV

Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NRSVA

Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said, ‘Do you believe in the Son of Man?’

NRSVACE

Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said, ‘Do you believe in the Son of Man?’

NRSVCE

Jesus heard that they had driven him out, and when he found him, he said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

NTE

Jesus heard that they had thrown the man out. He found him and spoke to him. ‘Do you believe in the son of man?’ he asked.

OJB

Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach heard that they threw him out, and, having found him, Rebbe, Melech HaMoshiach said, Do you have emunah (faith) in the Ben HaAdam?

(Ed. Note: the Ben HaAdam = the son of the Adam)

RSV

Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of man?”

RSVCE

Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he said, “Do you believe in the Son of man?”

TLV

Yeshua heard that they had thrown him out. Finding him, He said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”

VOICE

Jesus heard what had happened and sought out the man. Jesus: Do you believe in the Son of Man?

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