John 9:1
And as Jesus passed by, he saw a man which was blind from his birth.
KJV
Καὶ παράγων εἶδεν ἄνθρωπον τυφλὸν ἐκ γενετῆς.
Greek NT
Et præteriens Jesus vidit hominem cæcum a nativitate :
Vulgate
And as he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
ASV
And Jesus passing by, saw a man who was blind from his birth.
Douay-Rheims
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In the original Greek
7 distinct Greek words appear in this verse.
γενετή
genete
noun · 1×
καί
kai
conjunction · 8973×
παράγω
parago
verb · 10×
τυφλός
tuphlos
adjective · 50×
ἄνθρωπος
anthropos
noun · 549×
ἐκ
ek
preposition · 915×
ὁράω
orao
verb · 682×
Miracle
Historic Christian voices
6 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Inquiry into the production of the æons: whatever its supposed nature, it is in every respect inconsistent; and on the hypothesis of the heretics, even Nous and the Father Himself would be stained with ignorance. 1. That system, then, which has respect to their Pleroma, and especially that part of it which refers to the primary Ogdoad being thus burdened with so great contradic…
1. A shameless and a forward thing is wickedness, and when it ought to hide itself, then is it the fiercer. As was the case with the Jews. For when they ought to have been pricked by what was said, admiring the boldness and conclusiveness of the words, they even insult Him, calling Him a Samaritan, and saying that He had a devil, and they ask, Said we not well that you are a Sa…
1. How Christians are the Spiritual Israel. That people which was called of old the people of God was divided into twelve tribes, and over and above the other tribes it had the levitical order, which itself again carried on the service of God in various priestly and levitical suborders. In the same manner, it appears to me that the whole people of Christ, when we regard it in t…
Providence, then, is the care that God takes over existing things. And again: Providence is the will of God through which all existing things receive their fitting issue. But if Providence is God's will, according to true reasoning all things that come into being through Providence must necessarily be both most fair and most excellent, and such that they cannot be surpassed. Fo…
Cross-references
- Acts 4:22 — For the man was above forty years old, on whom this miracle of healing was shewed.
- Acts 14:8 — And there sat a certain man at Lystra, impotent in his feet, being a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked:
- Isa 35:5 — Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
- John 5:5 — And a certain man was there, which had an infirmity thirty and eight years.
- Luke 8:43 — And a woman having an issue of blood twelve years, which had spent all her living upon physicians, neither could be healed of any,
- Matt 9:27 — And when Jesus departed thence, two blind men followed him, crying, and saying, Thou son of David, have mercy on us.