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John 9:11Now as Jesus was passing by, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
John 9:22His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who committed the sin that caused him to be born blind, this man or his parents?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 13:2John 9:34Acts 28:4Exod 20:5
John 9:33Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but he was born blind so that the acts of God may be revealed through what happens to him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 11:4John 11:40Eccl 9:1-2Job 2:3-6Matt 11:5Acts 4:21Job 42:7Job 1:8-12Acts 28:4Job 22:5-30
John 9:44We must perform the deeds of the one who sent me as long as it is daytime. Night is coming when no one can work.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:35Eph 5:16John 4:34Eccl 9:10John 11:9-10Gal 6:10John 17:4Col 4:5John 5:36John 10:32
John 9:55As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 8:12John 12:46Acts 13:47John 1:4-9Acts 26:18Eph 5:14Isa 42:6-7Rev 21:23John 3:19-21Matt 4:16
John 9:66Having said this, he spat on the ground and made some mud with the saliva. He smeared the mud on the blind man’s eyesCopy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Mark 7:33Mark 8:23Rev 3:18
John 9:77and said to him, “Go wash in the pool of Siloam” (which is translated “sent”). So the blind man went away and washed, and came back seeing.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 35:5John 11:37John 9:11Acts 26:18Isa 8:6Ps 146:8Exod 4:11Isa 42:7Luke 13:4Neh 3:15
John 9:88Then the neighbors and the people who had seen him previously as a beggar began saying, “Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Sam 2:81 Sam 21:11Acts 3:2-11Luke 16:20-22Luke 18:35Mark 10:46Ruth 1:19
John 9:99Some people said, “This is the man!” while others said, “No, but he looks like him.” The man himself kept insisting, “I am the one!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
John 9:1010So they asked him, “How then were you made to see?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 15:35Eccl 11:5John 3:9John 9:15John 9:21John 9:26Mark 4:27
John 9:1111He replied, “The man called Jesus made mud, smeared it on my eyes and told me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed, and was able to see.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:6-7John 9:27
John 9:1212They said to him, “Where is that man?” He replied, “I don’t know.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Exod 2:18-20John 5:11-13John 7:11
John 9:1313They brought the man who used to be blind to the Pharisees.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:42John 11:46-47John 11:57John 8:3-8John 12:19
John 9:1414(Now the day on which Jesus made the mud and caused him to see was a Sabbath.)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 5:9Luke 13:10-17Matt 12:1-14John 5:16John 7:21-23Luke 14:1Luke 6:1-11Mark 2:23-3:6
John 9:1515So the Pharisees asked him again how he had gained his sight. He replied, “He put mud on my eyes and I washed, and now I am able to see.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:10-11John 9:26-27
John 9:1616Then some of the Pharisees began to say, “This man is not from God, because he does not observe the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner perform such miraculous signs?” Thus there was a division among them.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 10:19John 7:43John 3:2John 7:12Matt 12:2John 14:11John 15:24John 5:36John 6:52John 9:24
John 9:1717So again they asked the man who used to be blind, “What do you say about him, since he caused you to see?” “He is a prophet,” the man replied.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 3:22-26John 4:19John 6:14Acts 10:38Acts 2:22Luke 24:19Matt 21:11
John 9:1818Now the Jewish religious leaders refused to believe that he had really been blind and had gained his sight until at last they summoned the parents of the man who had become able to see.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Heb 3:15-19Gen 19:14Heb 4:11Isa 26:11Isa 53:1John 1:19John 12:37-40John 5:44John 9:22Luke 16:31
John 9:1919They asked the parents, “Is this your son, whom you say was born blind? Then how does he now see?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Acts 4:14John 9:8-9Acts 3:10
John 9:2020So his parents replied, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
John 9:2121But we do not know how he is now able to see, nor do we know who caused him to see. Ask him, he is a mature adult. He will speak for himself.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
John 9:2222(His parents said these things because they were afraid of the Jewish religious leaders. For the Jewish leaders had already agreed that anyone who confessed Jesus to be the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 16:2John 7:13Luke 6:22John 12:42-43John 9:34Acts 4:18Acts 5:13Acts 5:40Gal 2:11-13Isa 51:12
John 9:2323For this reason his parents said, “He is a mature adult, ask him.”)Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:21
John 9:2424Then they summoned the man who used to be blind a second time and said to him, “Promise before God to tell the truth. We know that this man is a sinner.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:16Josh 7:19John 8:492 Cor 5:21John 19:6Ps 50:14-151 Sam 6:5-9Isa 66:5John 14:30John 16:2
John 9:2525He replied, “I do not know whether he is a sinner. I do know one thing—that although I was blind, now I can see.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 John 5:10John 9:30John 5:11
John 9:2626Then they said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he cause you to see?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AI
John 9:2727He answered, “I told you already and you didn’t listen. Why do you want to hear it again? You people don’t want to become his disciples too, do you?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Luke 22:67
John 9:2828They heaped insults on him, saying, “You are his disciple! We are disciples of Moses!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:1 Cor 4:121 Cor 6:10Rom 2:171 Pet 2:23Acts 6:11-14Isa 51:7John 5:45-47John 7:19John 7:47-52John 9:34
John 9:2929We know that God has spoken to Moses! We do not know where this man comes from!”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 8:141 Kgs 22:272 Kgs 9:11Acts 22:22Acts 26:22Acts 7:35Deut 34:10Heb 3:2-5Isa 53:2-3John 1:17
John 9:3030The man replied, “This is a remarkable thing, that you don’t know where he comes from, and yet he caused me to see!Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 12:37Ps 119:18Isa 29:18Isa 29:14John 3:102 Cor 4:6Isa 35:5Luke 7:22Matt 11:5Mark 6:6
John 9:3131We know that God doesn’t listen to sinners, but if anyone is devout and does his will, God listens to him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Prov 15:29Isa 1:15Prov 28:9Mic 3:4Prov 1:28-29Ps 145:19Ps 34:15-16Zech 7:13Prov 21:13Ps 66:18-20
John 9:3232Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 64:4Job 20:4Luke 1:70Rev 16:18
John 9:3333If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:16John 3:2Acts 5:38-39
John 9:3434They replied, “You were born completely in sinfulness, and yet you presume to teach us?” So they threw him out.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 9:2John 9:22Isa 66:5Gen 19:9Job 25:4Luke 18:17Ps 51:51 Cor 5:131 Cor 5:4-51 Pet 5:5
John 9:3535Jesus heard that they had thrown him out, so he found the man and said to him, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 20:311 John 5:13Rom 10:201 John 4:15John 10:361 John 5:101 John 5:201 John 5:5Acts 8:36Acts 9:20
John 9:3636The man replied, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rom 10:14John 1:38Matt 11:3Prov 30:3-4Song 5:9
John 9:3737Jesus told him, “You have seen him; he is the one speaking with you.” [Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 4:26John 14:21-23John 7:17Ps 25:14Ps 25:8-9Matt 11:25Matt 13:11-12Acts 10:31-33
John 9:3838He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped him.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Matt 14:33Matt 28:9John 20:28Luke 24:52Matt 28:17Ps 2:12Ps 45:11Rev 5:9-14
John 9:3939Jesus said,] “For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind.”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:John 3:19Acts 26:18John 12:46John 8:121 John 2:11Luke 4:18John 12:40-41Luke 1:792 Cor 4:4-6John 5:22-27
John 9:4040Some of the Pharisees who were with him heard this and asked him, “We are not blind too, are we?”Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Rev 3:17Matt 15:12-14John 7:47-52John 9:34Luke 11:39-54Matt 23:16-28Rom 2:19-22
John 9:4141Jesus replied, “If you were blind, you would not be guilty of sin, but now because you claim that you can see, your guilt remains.Copy LinkKJV+Strong’sMany Bible VersionsAsk AICross Refs:Isa 5:21John 15:22-241 John 1:8-10Luke 18:14Heb 10:26Prov 26:12Jer 2:35Luke 12:47
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