John 9:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

and 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.

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  • Isa 35:5 : 5 Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.
  • John 11:37 : 37 But 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?”
  • John 9:11 : 11 He 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.”
  • Isa 8:6 : 6 “These people have rejected the gently flowing waters of Shiloah and melt in fear over Rezin and the son of Remaliah.
  • Isa 42:7 : 7 to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.
  • Neh 3:15 : 15 Shallun son of Col-Hozeh, head of the district of Mizpah, worked on the Fountain Gate. He rebuilt it, put on its roof, and positioned its doors, its bolts, and its bars. In addition, he rebuilt the wall of the Pool of Siloam, by the royal garden, as far as the steps that go down from the City of David.
  • Luke 13:4 : 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?
  • Ps 146:8 : 8 The LORD gives sight to the blind. The LORD lifts up all who are bent over. The LORD loves the godly.
  • Exod 4:11 : 11 The LORD said to him,“Who gave a mouth to man, or who makes a person mute or deaf or seeing or blind? Is it not I, the LORD?
  • 2 Kgs 5:10-14 : 10 Elisha sent out a messenger who told him,“Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored and you will be healed.” 11 Naaman went away angry. He said,“Look, I thought for sure he would come out, stand there, invoke the name of the LORD his God, wave his hand over the area, and cure the skin disease. 12 The rivers of Damascus, the Abana and Pharpar, are better than any of the waters of Israel! Could I not wash in them and be healed?” So he turned around and went away angry. 13 His servants approached and said to him,“O master, if the prophet had told you to do some difficult task, you would have been willing to do it. It seems you should be happy that he simply said,“Wash and you will be healed.” 14 So he went down and dipped in the Jordan seven times, as the prophet had instructed. His skin became as smooth as a young child’s and he was healed.
  • Isa 42:16-18 : 16 I will lead the blind along an unfamiliar way; I will guide them down paths they have never traveled. I will turn the darkness in front of them into light, and level out the rough ground. This is what I will do for them. I will not abandon them. 17 Those who trust in idols will turn back and be utterly humiliated, those who say to metal images,‘You are our gods.’” 18 The Lord Reasons with His People“Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!
  • Isa 43:8 : 8 The Lord Declares His Sovereignty Bring out the people who are blind, even though they have eyes, those who are deaf, even though they have ears!
  • Luke 2:32 : 32 a light, for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to your people Israel.”
  • Isa 29:18-19 : 18 At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness. 19 The downtrodden will again rejoice in the LORD; the poor among humankind will take delight in the Holy One of Israel.
  • Isa 32:3 : 3 Eyes will no longer be blind and ears will be attentive.
  • John 9:39 : 39 Jesus 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.”
  • John 10:36 : 36 do you say about the one whom the Father set apart and sent into the world,‘You are blaspheming,’ because I said,‘I am the Son of God’?
  • Acts 26:18 : 18 to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
  • Rom 8:3 : 3 For God achieved what the law could not do because it was weakened through the flesh. By sending his own Son in the likeness of sinful flesh and concerning sin, he condemned sin in the flesh,
  • Gal 4:4 : 4 But when the appropriate time had come, God sent out his Son, born of a woman, born under the law,

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  • John 9:8-15
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    8 Then 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?”

    9 Some people said,“This is the man!” while others said,“No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting,“I am the one!”

    10 So they asked him,“How then were you made to see?”

    11 He 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.”

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

    13 The 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.)

    15 So 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.”

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

  • Mark 8:22-23
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    22 A Two-stage Healing Then they came to Bethsaida. They brought a blind man to Jesus and asked him to touch him.

    23 He 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 9:23-26
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    23 For this reason his parents said,“He is a mature adult, ask him.”)

    24 Then 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.”

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

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

  • John 9:1-3
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    1 Healing a Man Born Blind Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

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

    3 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.

  • John 9:35-36
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    35 The 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?”

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

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    49 Jesus stopped and said,“Call him.” So they called the blind man and said to him,“Have courage! Get up! He is calling you.”

    50 He threw off his cloak, jumped up, and came to Jesus.

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

    52 Jesus said to him,“Go, your faith has healed you.” Immediately he regained his sight and followed him on the road.

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

  • 44 He told him,“See that you do not say anything to anyone, but go, show yourself to a priest, and bring the offering that Moses commanded for your cleansing, as a testimony to them.”

  • John 9:17-19
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    17 So 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.

    18 Now 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.

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

  • Mark 8:25-26
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    25 Then Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes again. And he opened his eyes, his sight was restored, and he saw everything clearly.

    26 Jesus sent him home, saying,“Do not even go into the village.”

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    41 “What do you want me to do for you?” He replied,“Lord, let me see again.”

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

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

  • 21 But 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.”

  • 14 When he saw them he said,“Go and show yourselves to the priests.” And as they went along, they were cleansed.

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    6 When Jesus saw him lying there and when he realized that the man had been disabled a long time already, he said to him,“Do you want to become well?”

    7 The sick man answered him,“Sir, I have no one to put me into the pool when the water is stirred up. While I am trying to get into the water, someone else goes down there before me.”

    8 Jesus said to him,“Stand up! Pick up your mat and walk.”

  • John 5:14-15
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    14 After 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.”

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

  • 35 Healing a Blind Man As Jesus approached Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road begging.

  • 19 Then he said to the man,“Get up and go your way. Your faith has made you well.”

  • 39 Jesus 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.”

  • 34 Then he looked up to heaven and said with a sigh,“Ephphatha”(that is,“Be opened”).

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

  • 18 Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes, and he could see again. He got up and was baptized,

  • 22 So he answered them,“Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

  • 10 Elisha sent out a messenger who told him,“Go and wash seven times in the Jordan; your skin will be restored and you will be healed.”

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