John 9:3 - Easy To Read Version

³ Jesus answered, “It is not this man’s sin or his parents’ sin that made him be blind. This man was born blind so that God could use him to show what great things God can do.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ Jesus answered, Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ Jesus answered, It was not that this man or his parents sinned, but he was born blind in order that the workings of God should be manifested (displayed and illustrated) in him.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Common English Bible

³ Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents. This happened so that God’s mighty works might be displayed in him.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ Jesus responded: "Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but it was so that the works of God would be made manifest in him.

John 9:3 Cross References

Job 21:27

“But, I know what you are thinking,\par and I know you want to hurt me.\par

Job 32:3

Elihu was also angry with Job’s three friends. Why? Because Job’s three friends could not answer Job’s questions. They could not prove that Job was wrong.

Job 42:7

After the Lord finished talking to Job, he spoke to Eliphaz from Teman. The Lord said to Eliphaz, “I am angry at you and your two friends. Why? Because you didn’t say right things about me. But Job is my servant. Job said right things about me.

Matthew 11:5

Blind people are able to see again; crippled people are able to walk again; people that have leprosy {\cf2\super [131]} are healed; deaf people can hear again; dead people are raised from death; and the Good News {\cf2\super [132]} is told to the poor people.

John 11:4

When Jesus heard this he said, “The end of this sickness will not be death. But this sickness is for the glory of God. This has happened to bring glory to the Son of God.”

John 11:40

Then Jesus said to Martha, “Remember what I told you? I said that if you believed, then you would see the glory of God.”

Acts 28:4

The people living on the island saw the snake hanging from Paul’s hand. They said, “This man must be a murderer! He did not die in the sea, but Justice {\cf2\super [519]} does not want him to live.”

1 John 4:16

And so we know the love that God has for us. And we trust that love.

1 John 4:9

This is how God showed his love to us: God sent his only Son into the world to give us life through him.