John 9:3
Jesus answered, “This man didn’t sin, nor did his parents, but that the works of God might be revealed in him.
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2His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
4I must work the works of him who sent me while it is day. The night is coming, when no one can work.
Cross References
Job 1:8The LORD said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him on the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
Job 21:27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the plans with which you would wrong me.
Job 32:3Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.
Ecclesiastes 9:1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
Luke 13:2Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
John 11:40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”
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 →