John 9:3

Geneva Bible (1560)

Iesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the workes of God should be shewed on him.

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  • John 11:4 : 4 When Iesus heard it, he saide, This sickenes is not vnto death, but for the glorie of God, that the Sonne of God might be glorified thereby.
  • Job 22:5-9 : 5 Is not thy wickednes great, and thine iniquities innumerable? 6 For thou hast taken the pledge from thy brother for nought, and spoyled the clothes of the naked. 7 To such as were wearie, thou hast not giuen water to drinke, and hast withdrawen bread from the hungrie. 8 But the mightie man had the earth, and he that was in autoritie, dwelt in it. 9 Thou hast cast out widowes emptie, & the armes of the fatherles were broken. 10 Therefore snares are round about thee, and feare shal suddenly trouble thee: 11 Or darkenes that thou shouldest not see, & abundance of waters shal couer thee. 12 Is not God on hie in the heauen? and behold the height of the starres how hie they are. 13 But thou sayest, How should God know? can he iudge through the darke cloude? 14 The cloudes hide him that he can not see, and he walketh in the circle of heauen. 15 Hast thou marked the way of the worlde, wherein wicked men haue walked? 16 Which were cut downe before the time, whose foundation was as a riuer that ouerflowed: 17 Which sayd vnto God, Depart from vs, & asked what the Almightie could do for them. 18 Yet hee filled their houses with good things: but let the counsell of the wicked be farre from me. 19 The righteous shal see them, & shal reioyce, and the innocent shal laugh them to scorne. 20 Surely our substance is hid: but the fire hath deuoured the remnant of them. 21 Therefore acquaint thy selfe, I pray thee, with him, and make peace: thereby thou shalt haue prosperitie. 22 Receiue, I pray thee, the law of his mouth, and lay vp his words in thine heart. 23 If thou returne to the Almightie, thou shalt be buylt vp, and thou shalt put iniquitie farre from thy tabernacle. 24 Thou shalt lay vp golde for dust, and the gold of Ophir, as the flintes of the riuers. 25 Yea, the Almightie shalbe thy defence, and thou shalt haue plentie of siluer. 26 And thou shalt then delite in the Almightie, and lift vp thy face vnto God. 27 Thou shalt make thy praier vnto him, & he shal heare thee, & thou shalt render thy vowes. 28 Thou shalt also decree a thing, and he shal establish it vnto thee, and the light shall shine vpon thy wayes. 29 When others are cast downe, then shalt thou say, I am lifted vp: and God shall saue the humble person. 30 The innocent shal deliuer the yland, & it shalbe preserued by the purenes of thine hands.
  • Job 42:7 : 7 Now after that the Lord had spoken these wordes vnto Iob, ye Lord also said vnto Eliphaz ye Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: for yee haue not spoken of me the thing that is right, like my seruant Iob.
  • Job 1:8-9 : 8 And the Lord saide vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? 9 Then Satan answered the Lord, and sayde, Doeth Iob feare God for nought? 10 Hast thou not made an hedge about him and about his house, & about all that he hath on euery side? thou hast blessed the worke of his hands, & his substance is increased in the land. 11 But stretch out now thine hand & touch all that he hath, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face. 12 Then the Lorde sayde vnto Satan, Lo, all that he hath is in thine hand: onely vpon himselfe shalt thou not stretch out thine hand. So Satan departed from the presence of the Lord.
  • Job 2:3-6 : 3 And the Lord sayd vnto Satan, Hast thou not considered my seruant Iob, how none is like him in the earth? an vpright and iust man, one that feareth God, and escheweth euill? for yet he continueth in his vprightnesse, although thou mouedst me against him, to destroy him without cause. 4 And Satan answered the Lorde, and sayde, Skin for skin, and all that euer a man hath, will he giue for his life. 5 But stretch now out thine hand, and touch his bones and his flesh, to see if he will not blaspheme thee to thy face. 6 Then the Lorde said vnto Satan, Lo, he is in thine hand, but saue his life.
  • Job 21:27 : 27 Behold, I know your thoughts, and the enterprises, wherewith ye do me wrong.
  • Job 32:3 : 3 Also his anger was kindled against his three friends, because they could not finde an answere, and yet condemned Iob.
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 I haue surely giuen mine heart to all this, and to declare all this, that the iust, and the wise, and their workes are in the hand of God: and no man knoweth eyther loue or hatred of all that is before them. 2 All things come alike to all: and the same condition is to the iust and to the wicked, to the good and to the pure, and to the polluted, and to him that sacrificeth, and to him that sacrificeth not: as is the good, so is the sinner, he that sweareth, as he that feareth an othe.
  • Matt 11:5 : 5 The blinde receiue sight, and the halt doe walke: the lepers are clensed, and the deafe heare, the dead are raised vp, and the poore receiue the Gospel.
  • Luke 13:2-5 : 2 And Iesus answered, and saide vnto them, Suppose ye, that these Galileans were greater sinners then al the other Galileans, because they haue suffered such things? 3 I tell you, nay: but except ye amend your liues, ye shall all likewise perish. 4 Or thinke you that those eighteene, vpon whom the tower in Siloam fell, and slewe them, were sinners aboue all men that dwel in Hierusalem? 5 I tell you, nay: but except ye amend your liues, ye shall all likewise perish.
  • John 14:11-13 : 11 Beleeue me, that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me: at the least, beleeue me for the very workes sake. 12 Verely, verely I say vnto you, he that beleeueth in me, the workes that I doe, hee shall doe also, and greater then these shall he doe: for I goe vnto my Father. 13 And whatsoeuer ye aske in my Name, that will I doe, that the Father may be glorified in the Sonne.
  • Acts 4:21 : 21 So they threatened them, and let them goe, and found nothing how to punish them, because of the people: for all men praised God for that which was done.
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 Nowe when ye Barbarians saw the worme hang on his hand, they said among themselues, This man surely is a murtherer, whom, though he hath escaped the sea, yet Vengeance hath not suffered to liue.

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  • John 9:1-2
    2 verses
    90%

    1And as Iesus passed by, he sawe a man which was blinde from his birth.

    2And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sinne, this man, or his parents, that he was borne blinde?

  • John 9:30-36
    7 verses
    78%

    30The man answered, and sayde vnto them, Doutlesse, this is a marueilous thing, that ye know not whence he is, and yet he hath opened mine eyes.

    31Now we know that God heareth not sinners: but if any man be a worshipper of God, and doeth his will, him heareth he.

    32Since the world began, was it not heard, that any man opened the eyes of one that was borne blinde.

    33If this man were not of God, hee could haue done nothing.

    34They answered, and sayd vnto him, Thou art altogether borne in sinnes, and doest thou teach vs? so they cast him out.

    35Iesus heard that they had cast him out: and when he had found him, he sayd vnto him, Doest thou beleeue in the Sonne of God?

    36He answered, and sayd, Who is he, Lord, that I might beleeue in him?

  • John 9:10-26
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    10Therefore they sayd vnto him, Howe were thine eyes opened?

    11He answered, and sayd, The man that is called Iesus, made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and sayde vnto me, Goe to the poole of Siloam and wash. So I went and washed, and receiued sight.

    12Then they sayd vnto him, Where is he? He sayd, I can not tell.

    13They brought to the Pharises him that was once blinde.

    14And it was the Sabbath day, when Iesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

    15Then againe the Pharises also asked him, how he had receiued sight; hee sayd vnto them, He layd clay vpon mine eyes, & I washed, and doe see.

    16Then said some of the Pharises, This man is not of God, because he keepeth not the Sabbath day. Others sayd, Howe can a man that is a sinner, doe such miracles? and there was a dissension among them.

    17Then spake they vnto the blinde againe, What sayest thou of him, because he hath opened thine eyes? And he sayd, He is a Prophet.

    18Then the Iewes did not beleeue him (that he had bene blinde, and receiued his sight) vntill they had called the parents of him that had receiued sight.

    19And they asked them, saying, Is this your sonne, whom ye say was borne blinde? How doeth he nowe see then?

    20His parents answered them, and sayd, We know that this is our sonne, & that he was borne blinde:

    21But by what meanes hee nowe seeth, we know not: or who hath opened his eyes, can we not tell: he is olde ynough: aske him: hee shall answere for himselfe.

    22These wordes spake his parents, because they feared the Iewes: for the Iewes had ordeined already, that if any man did confesse that he was Christ, he should be excommunicate out of the Synagogue.

    23Therefore sayde his parents, Hee is olde ynough: aske him.

    24Then againe called they the man that had bene blinde, and sayd vnto him, Giue glory vnto God: we know that this man is a sinner.

    25Then he answered, and sayd, Whether hee be a sinner or no, I can not tell: one thing I know, that I was blinde, and nowe I see.

    26Then sayd they to him againe, What did he to thee? howe opened he thine eyes?

  • John 9:4-8
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    4I must worke the workes of him that sent me, while it is day: the night commeth when no man can worke.

    5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.

    6Assoone as he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spettle, and anointed the eyes of the blinde with the clay,

    7And sayd vnto him, Go wash in the poole of Siloam (which is by interpretation, Sent.) He went his way therefore, and washed, and came againe seeing.

    8Nowe the neighbours and they that had seene him before, when he was blinde, sayd, Is not this he that sate and begged?

  • John 9:39-41
    3 verses
    74%

    39And Iesus sayd, I am come vnto iudgement into this world, that they which see not, might see: and that they which see, might be made blinde.

    40And some of the Pharises which were with him, heard these things, & sayd vnto him, Are we blinde also?

    41Iesus sayd vnto them, If ye were blinde, ye should not haue sinne: but nowe ye say, We see: therefore your sinne remaineth.

  • Mark 10:51
    71%

    51And Iesus answered, & said vnto him, What wilt thou that I doe vnto thee? And the blinde sayd vnto him, Lorde, that I may receiue sight.

  • John 5:14-15
    2 verses
    71%

    14And after that, Iesus founde him in the Temple, and said vnto him, Beholde, thou art made whole: sinne no more, lest a worse thing come vnto thee.

    15The man departed and tolde the Iewes that it was Iesus, which had made him whole.

  • John 11:37
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    37And some of them saide, Coulde not he, which opened the eyes of the blinde, haue made also, that this man should not haue died?

  • John 3:3
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    3Iesus answered, & said vnto him, Verely, verely I say vnto thee, except a man be borne againe, he can not see the kingdome of God.

  • John 11:9
    69%

    9Iesus answered, Are there not twelue houres in the day? If a man walke in the day, hee stumbleth not, because he seeth the light of this world.

  • John 5:11-12
    2 verses
    69%

    11He answered them, He that made me whole, he said vnto me, Take vp thy bed, and walke.

    12Then asked they him, What man is that which said vnto thee, Take vp thy bed and walke?

  • John 3:21
    69%

    21But he that doeth trueth, commeth to the light, that his deedes might bee made manifest, that they are wrought according to God.

  • Mark 8:23
    69%

    23Then he tooke the blinde by the hand, and ledde him out of the towne, and spat in his eyes, and put his handes vpon him, and asked him, if he sawe ought.

  • John 5:19
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    19Then answered Iesus, and said vnto them, Verely, verely I say vnto you, The Sonne can doe nothing of himselfe, saue that he seeth the Father doe: for whatsoeuer things he doth, the same things doeth the Sonne in like maner.

  • John 3:10
    69%

    10Iesus answered, & saide vnto him, Art thou a teacher of Israel, and knowest not these things?

  • Luke 18:41-43
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    41Saying, What wilt thou that I doe vnto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receiue my sight.

    42And Iesus said vnto him, Receiue thy sight: thy faith hath saued thee.

    43Then immediatly he receiued his sight, and followed him, praysing God: and all the people, when they sawe this, gaue praise to God.

  • John 6:28
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    28Then sayde they vnto him, What shall we doe, that we might worke the workes of God?