John 9:1
As He passed by, He saw a man who had been blind from his birth.
Weymouth NT (1912)
In The King James Version
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
In Context
2So His disciples asked Him, "Rabbi, who sinned--this man or his parents--that he was born blind?"
Cross References
Matthew 20:30two blind men sitting by the roadside heard that it was Jesus who was passing by, and cried aloud, "Sir, Son of David, pity us."
Luke 8:43And a woman who for twelve years had been afflicted with haemorrhage--and had spent on doctors all she had, but none of them had been able to cure her--
Acts 4:22For the man was over forty years of age on whom this miracle of restoration to health had been performed.
Acts 14:8Now a man who had no power in his feet used to sit in the streets of Lystra. He had been lame from his birth 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 →