John 9:3
Jesus responded: “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God would be made manifest in him.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
In Context
Cross References
Job 1:8And the Lord said to him, “Have you not considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the land, a simple and honest man, fearing God and withdrawing from evil.”
Job 21:27Surely, I know your thoughts and your sinful judgments against me.
Job 32:3Moreover, he was indignant with his friends because they had not found a reasonable response, except in so far as they condemned Job.
Ecclesiastes 9:1I have drawn all these things through my heart, so that I might carefully understand. There are just men as well as wise men, and their works are in the hand of God. And yet a man does not know so much as whether he is worthy of love or of hatred.
Luke 13:2And responding, he said to them: “Do you think that these Galileans must have sinned more than all other Galileans, because they suffered so much?
John 11:40Jesus said to her, “Did I not say to you that if you believe, you shall 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 →