John 9:1

As Jesus walked along with his followers, they saw a blind man that was blind all his life, from the time he was born.

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In The King James Version

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

In Context

2Jesus’s followers asked him, “Teacher, why did God make this man blind from the time he was born? Did he do something bad, or did his parents?”

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Cross References

Acts 14:8In Listra there was a man that was crippled. He was born crippled. He never walked in his life.

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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