John 9:3
Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.
Berean Standard Bible
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In Context
2and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
4While it is daytime, we must do the works of Him who sent Me. Night is coming, when no one can work.
Cross References
Job 1:8Then the LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered My servant Job? For there is no one on earth like him, a man who is blameless and upright, who fears God and shuns evil.”
Job 21:27Behold, I know your thoughts full well, the schemes by which you would wrong me.
Job 32:3and he burned with anger against Job’s three friends because they had failed to refute Job, and yet had condemned him.
Ecclesiastes 9:1So I took all this to heart and concluded that the righteous and the wise, as well as their deeds, are in God’s hands. Man does not know what lies ahead, whether love or hate.
Luke 13:2To this He replied, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered this fate?
John 11:40Jesus replied, “Did I not tell you that if you believed, you would 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 →