John 9:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

Behold, I know your thoughts, And the devices which ye wrongfully imagine against me.

Job 32:3

Also against his three friends was his wrath kindled, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

Job 42:7

And it was so, that after the LORD had spoken these words unto Job, the LORD said to Eliphaz the Temanite, My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends: For ye have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job hath.

Matthew 11:5

the blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised up, and the poor have good tidings preached to them.

John 11:4

But when Jesus heard it, he said, This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God, that the Son of God may be glorified thereby.

John 11:40

Jesus saith unto her, Said I not unto thee, that, if thou believedst, thou shouldest see the glory of God?

Acts 28:4

And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging from his hand, they said one to another, No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he hath escaped from the sea, yet Justice hath not suffered to live.

Acts 4:21

And they, when they had further threatened them, let them go, finding nothing how they might punish them, because of the people; for all men glorified God for that which was done.

1 John 4:16

And we know and have believed the love which God hath in us. God is love; and he that abideth in love abideth in God, and God abideth in him.

1 John 4:9

Herein was the love of God manifested in us, that God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.