Luke 7:22

So he answered those two men, “Go back and report to John what you have seen me doing and what you have heard me telling people. I am enabling blind people to see. I am enabling lame people to walk. I am healing people who have leprosy. I am enabling deaf people to hear. I am causing dead people to become alive again, and I am telling God’s good message to poor people.

Translation for Translators

In The King James Version

Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.

In Context

21At that very time Jesus was healing many people of their diseases and other sicknesses, he was casting out evil spirits, and he was causing many blind people to be able to see.

23Also tell John that God is pleased with those who do not stop believing in me because what I do is not what they expect the Messiah to do.”

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Cross References

Psalms 146:8Yahweh enables those who are blind to see again. He lifts up those who have fallen down. He loves righteous people.

Isaiah 32:3When that happens, those leaders will enable people who have not understood [MET] God’s truth to understand it, and they will enable those who have not paid attention to [MET] God’s truth to pay attention to it.

Isaiah 42:6“I, Yahweh, have chosen you to show people that I always act righteously/fairly. I will grasp your hand and protect you, and I will present you to my Israeli people to be the one who will put into effect my agreement with them. You will be like a light to the other nations.

Isaiah 43:8Summon the people who have eyes but it is as though they are blind; summon those who have ears but because they do not listen to me, it is as though they are deaf.

Jeremiah 31:8Do that because I will bring them back from the northeast, from the most distant places on the earth. Among them will be blind people and lame people, women who are pregnant and women who are ◄having labor pains/about to give birth to babies►. They will be a huge group of people!

Matthew 9:28Jesus went into the house, where he was staying, and then the blind men went in, too. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to heal your eyes?” They said to him, “Yes, Lord!”

Matthew Henry on Luke 7:20-36

John's Message to Jesus; The Ministry of John and of Christ. 19 And John calling unto him two of his disciples sent them to Jesus, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? 20 When the men were come unto him, they said, John Baptist hath sent us unto thee, saying, Art thou he that should come? or look we for another? 21 And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight. 22 Then Jesus answering said unto them,… Read the whole commentary →

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