John 9:3 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

³ Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him.

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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

John 9:3 Cross References

Job 21:27

“Oh, I know your thoughts and your schemes to wrong me.

Job 32:3

he was angry also at Job’s three friends because they had found no answer, though they had declared Job to be in the wrong.

Job 42:7

After the Lord had spoken these words to Job, the Lord said to Eliphaz the Temanite: “My wrath is kindled against you and against your two friends, for you have not spoken of me what is right, as my servant Job has.

Matthew 11:5

the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, those with a skin disease are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, and the poor have good news brought to them.

John 11:4

But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This illness does not lead to death; rather, it is for God’s glory, so that the Son of God may be glorified through it.”

John 11:40

Jesus said to her, “Did I not tell you that if you believed you would see the glory of God?”

Acts 28:4

When the local people saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “This man must be a murderer; though he has escaped from the sea, Justice has not allowed him to live.”

Acts 4:21

After threatening them again, they let them go, finding no way to punish them because of the people, for all of them praised God for what had happened.

1 John 4:16

So we have known and believe the love that God has for us. God is love, and those who abide in love abide in God, and God abides in them.

1 John 4:9

God’s love was revealed among us in this way: God sent his only Son into the world so that we might live through him.