John 9:1
As Jesus walked along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.
Text-Critical English NT
In The King James Version
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
In Context
2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind?”
Cross References
Matthew 20:30And behold, there were two blind men sitting by the road. When they heard that Jesus was passing by, they cried out, “ Have mercy on us, Lord, Son of David!”
Luke 8:43Now there was a woman who had suffered from a flow of blood for twelve years, and even though she had spent her entire livelihood on physicians, she could not be healed by anyone.
Acts 4:22For the man on whom this sign of healing had been performed was more than forty years old.
Acts 14:8Now there was a man sitting in Lystra who could not use his feet. He had been lame from his mother's womb 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 →