John 9:3

Good News Translation

Jesus answered, “His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents' sins. He is blind so that God's power might be seen at work in him.

Cross References

Job 21:27

I know what spiteful thoughts you have.

Job 32:3

He was also angry with Job's three friends. They could not find any way to answer Job, and this made it appear that God was in the wrong.

Job 42:7

After the Lord had finished speaking to Job, he said to Eliphaz, “I am angry with you and your two friends, because you did not speak the truth about me, the way my servant Job did.

Matthew 11:5

the blind can see, the lame can walk, those who suffer from dreaded skin diseases are made clean, the deaf hear, the dead are brought back to life, and the Good News is preached to the poor.

John 11:4

When Jesus heard it, he said, “The final result of this sickness will not be the death of Lazarus; this has happened in order to bring glory to God, and it will be the means by which the Son of God will receive glory.”

John 11:40

Jesus said to her, “Didn't I tell you that you would see God's glory if you believed?”

Acts 28:4

The natives saw the snake hanging on Paul's hand and said to one another, “This man must be a murderer, but Fate will not let him live, even though he escaped from the sea.”

Acts 4:21

So the Council warned them even more strongly and then set them free. They saw that it was impossible to punish them, because the people were all praising God for what had happened.

1 John 4:16

And we ourselves know and believe the love which God has for us. God is love, and those who live in love live in union with God and God lives in union with them.

1 John 4:9

And God showed his love for us by sending his only Son into the world, so that we might have life through him.