John 9:3

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

Jesus answered,“Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.

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  • John 11:4 : 4 When Jesus heard this, he said,“This sickness will not lead to death, but to God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”
  • Job 22:5-9 : 5 Is not your wickedness great and is there no end to your iniquity? 6 “For you took pledges from your brothers for no reason, and you stripped the clothing from the naked. 7 You gave the weary no water to drink and from the hungry you withheld food. 8 Although you were a powerful man, owning land, an honored man living on it, 9 you sent widows away empty-handed, and the arms of the orphans you crushed. 10 That is why snares surround you, and why sudden fear terrifies you, 11 why it is so dark you cannot see, and why a flood of water covers you. 12 “Is not God on high in heaven? And see the lofty stars, how high they are! 13 But you have said,‘What does God know? Does he judge through such deep darkness? 14 Thick clouds are a veil for him, so he does not see us, as he goes back and forth in the vault of heaven.’ 15 Will you keep to the old path that evil men have walked– 16 men who were carried off before their time, when the flood was poured out on their foundations? 17 They were saying to God,‘Turn away from us,’ and‘What can the Almighty do to us?’ 18 But it was he who filled their houses with good things– yet the counsel of the wicked was far from me. 19 The righteous see their destruction and rejoice; the innocent mock them scornfully, saying, 20 ‘Surely our enemies are destroyed, and fire consumes their wealth.’ 21 “Reconcile yourself with God, and be at peace with him; in this way your prosperity will be good. 22 Accept instruction from his mouth and store up his words in your heart. 23 If you return to the Almighty, you will be built up; if you remove wicked behavior far from your tent, 24 and throw your gold in the dust– your gold of Ophir among the rocks in the ravines– 25 then the Almighty himself will be your gold, and the choicest silver for you. 26 Surely then you will delight yourself in the Almighty, and will lift up your face toward God. 27 You will pray to him and he will hear you, and you will fulfill your vows to him. 28 Whatever you decide on a matter, it will be established for you, and light will shine on your ways. 29 When people are brought low and you say‘Lift them up!’ then he will save the downcast; 30 he will deliver even someone who is not innocent, who will escape through the cleanness of your hands.”
  • Job 42:7 : 7 After the LORD had spoken these things to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Temanite,“My anger is stirred up against you and your two friends, because you have not spoken about me what is right, as my servant Job has.
  • Job 1:8-9 : 8 So the LORD said to Satan,“Have you considered my servant Job? There is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil.” 9 Then Satan answered the LORD,“Is it for nothing that Job fears God? 10 Have you not made a hedge around him and his household and all that he has on every side? You have blessed the work of his hands, and his livestock have increased in the land. 11 But extend your hand and strike everything he has, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!” 12 So the LORD said to Satan,“All right then, everything he has is in your power. Only do not extend your hand against the man himself!” So Satan went out from the presence of the LORD.
  • Job 2:3-6 : 3 Then the LORD said to Satan,“Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a pure and upright man, one who fears God and turns away from evil. And he still holds firmly to his integrity, so that you stirred me up to destroy him without reason.” 4 But Satan answered the LORD,“Skin for skin! Indeed, a man will give up all that he has to save his life! 5 But extend your hand and strike his bone and his flesh, and he will no doubt curse you to your face!” 6 So the LORD said to Satan,“All right, he is in your power; only preserve his life.”
  • Job 21:27 : 27 Futile Words, Deceptive Answers“Yes, I know what you are thinking, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
  • Job 32:3 : 3 With Job’s three friends he was also angry, because they could not find an answer, and so declared Job guilty.
  • Eccl 9:1-2 : 1 Everyone Will Die So I reflected on all this, attempting to clear it all up. I concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their works, are in the hand of God; whether a person will be loved or hated– no one knows what lies ahead. 2 Everyone shares the same fate– the righteous and the wicked, the good and the bad, the ceremonially clean and unclean, those who offer sacrifices and those who do not. What happens to the good person, also happens to the sinner; what happens to those who make vows, also happens to those who are afraid to make vows.
  • Matt 11:5 : 5 The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news proclaimed to them
  • Luke 13:2-5 : 2 He answered them,“Do you think these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered these things? 3 No, I tell you! But unless you repent, you will all perish as well! 4 Or those eighteen who were killed when the tower in Siloam fell on them, do you think they were worse offenders than all the others who live in Jerusalem? 5 No, I tell you! But unless you repent you will all perish as well!”
  • John 14:11-13 : 11 Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father is in me, but if you do not believe me, believe because of the miraculous deeds themselves. 12 I tell you the solemn truth, the person who believes in me will perform the miraculous deeds that I am doing, and will perform greater deeds than these, because I am going to the Father. 13 And I will do whatever you ask in my name, so that the Father may be glorified in the Son.
  • Acts 4:21 : 21 After threatening them further, they released them, for they could not find how to punish them on account of the people, because they were all praising God for what had happened.
  • Acts 28:4 : 4 When the local people saw the creature hanging from Paul’s hand, they said to one another,“No doubt this man is a murderer! Although he has escaped from the sea, Justice herself has not allowed him to live!”

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  • John 9:1-2
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    1Healing a Man Born Blind Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

    2His disciples asked him,“Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”

  • John 9:30-36
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    30The man replied,“This is a remarkable thing, that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!

    31We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.

    32Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see.

    33If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”

    34They replied,“You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.

    35The Man’s Response to Jesus 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?”

    36The man replied,“And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”

  • John 9:10-26
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    10So they asked him,“How then were you made to see?”

    11He replied,“The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me,‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.”

    12They said to him,“Where is that man?” He replied,“I don’t know.”

    13The Pharisees’ Reaction to the Healing They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.

    14(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)

    15So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied,“He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see.”

    16Then some of the Pharisees began to say,“This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said,“How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.

    17So again they asked the man who used to be blind,“What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?”“He is a prophet,” the man replied.

    18Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.

    19They asked the parents,“Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”

    20So his parents replied,“We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.

    21But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself.”

    22(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.

    23For this reason his parents said,“He is a mature adult, ask him.”)

    24Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him,“Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.”

    25He replied,“I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing– that although I was blind, now I can see.”

    26Then they said to him,“What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?”

  • John 9:4-8
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    4We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.

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

    6Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyes

    7and said to him,“Go wash in the pool of Siloam”(which is translated“sent”). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.

    8Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying,“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”

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    39Jesus said,]“For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”

    40Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him,“We are not blind too, are we?”

    41Jesus replied,“If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.

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    51Then Jesus said to him,“What do you want me to do for you?” The blind man replied,“Rabbi, let me see again.”

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    14After this Jesus found him at the temple and said to him,“Look, you have become well. Don’t sin any more, lest anything worse happen to you.”

    15The man went away and informed the Jewish leaders that Jesus was the one who had made him well.

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    37But some of them said,“This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn’t he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?”

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    3Jesus replied,“I tell you the solemn truth, unless a person is born from above, he cannot see the kingdom of God.”

  • John 11:9
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    9Jesus replied,“Are there not twelve hours in a day? If anyone walks around in the daytime, he does not stumble, because he sees the light of this world.

  • John 5:11-12
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    11But he answered them,“The man who made me well said to me,‘Pick up your mat and walk.’”

    12They asked him,“Who is the man who said to you,‘Pick up your mat and walk’?”

  • John 3:21
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    21But the one who practices the truth comes to the light, so that it may be plainly evident that his deeds have been done in God.

  • Mark 8:23
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    23He took the blind man by the hand and brought him outside of the village. Then he spit on his eyes, placed his hands on his eyes and asked,“Do you see anything?”

  • John 5:19
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    19So Jesus answered them,“I tell you the solemn truth, the Son can do nothing on his own initiative, but only what he sees the Father doing. For whatever the Father does, the Son does likewise.

  • John 3:10
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    10Jesus answered,“Are you the teacher of Israel and yet you don’t understand these things?

  • Luke 18:41-43
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    41“What do you want me to do for you?” He replied,“Lord, let me see again.”

    42Jesus said to him,“Receive your sight; your faith has healed you.”

    43And immediately he regained his sight and followed Jesus, praising God. When all the people saw it, they too gave praise to God.

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