John 9:3
Jesus answered, Neither this man sinned, nor his parents, but that the works of God might be manifested in him.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. Night comes when no man can work.
Cross References
Job 1:8And LORD said to Satan, Have thou considered my servant Job? For there is none like him on the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts, and the devices with which ye would wrong me.
Job 32:3His anger was also kindled against his three friends because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God. No man understands, either love or hatred. All is before them.
Luke 13:2And having answered, Jesus said to them, Do ye suppose that these Galileans became sinful above all the Galileans because they have suffered such things?
John 11:40Jesus says to her, Did I not to say thee, that if thou believed, thou will see the glory of God?
Matthew Henry on John 9:2-8
Sight Given to One Born Blind. 1 And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, saying, Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind? 3 Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4 I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work. 5 As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world. 6 When he had thus… Read the whole commentary →