John 9:1

As Jesus passed by, he saw a man who had been blind from his birth.

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And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.

In Context

2“Rabbi,” asked his disciples, “who was it that sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”

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Cross References

Matthew 20:30Two blind men who were sitting by the roadside, hearing that Jesus was passing, called out, “Take pity on us, Master, Son of David!”

Luke 8:43And a woman, who had suffered from hemorrhage for twelve years, and whom no one could cure,

Acts 4:22for the man who was the subject of this miraculous cure was more than forty years old.

Acts 14:8In the streets of Lystra there used to sit a man who had no power in his feet; he had been lame from his birth, and had never walked.

Matthew Henry on John 9:1

After Christ's departure out of the temple, in the close of the foregoing chapter, and before this happened which is recorded in this chapter, he had been for some time abroad in the country, it is supposed about two or three months; in which interval of time Dr. Lightfoot and other harmonists place all the passages that occur from Luke x. 17 to xiii. 17 . What is recorded in ch. vii. and viii. was at the feast of tabernacles, in September; what is recorded in this and the following chapter was at the feast of… Read the whole commentary →

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