John 9:39

Jeshu said to them, For the judgment of this world am I come, that they who see not may see, and they who see may be made blind.

The Peschito Syriac New Testament: Translated into English by John Wesley Etheridge

In The King James Version

And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.

In Context

38He said, I believe, my Lord! And, falling, he adored him.

40And some of the Pharishee who were with him heard these (words), and they said to him, Are we blind also?

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Cross References

Matthew 11:5(that) the blind see, the lame are walking, the lepers are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead arise, and the poor are evangelized;

Luke 1:79To illumine those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death. And to direct our feet into the way of peace.

Luke 4:18The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because he hath anointed me to evangelize to the poor, And hath sent me to heal the contrite in heart, To proclaim to the captives release, And to the blind, vision, And to assure the contrite by remission,

Matthew Henry on John 9:36-39

Christ's Address to the Man that Had Been Blind. 35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and when he had found him, he said unto him, Dost thou believe on the Son of God? 36 He answered and said, Who is he, Lord, that I might believe on him? 37 And Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and it is he that talketh with thee. 38 And he said, Lord, I believe. And he worshipped him. In these verses we may observe, I. The tender care which our Lord Jesus took of this poor man ( v. 35 ): When Jesus heard that… Read the whole commentary →

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