Others said, “These are not the sayings of one possessed by a demon. It isn’t possible for a demon to open the eyes of the blind, is it?”
Parallel translations
- KJV Others said, These are not the words of him that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?
- BSB But others replied, “These are not the words of a man possessed by a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
- NKJV Others said, “These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
- NASB Others were saying, “These are not the words of one who is demon-possessed. A demon cannot open the eyes of those who are blind, can it?”
- NLT Others said, “This doesn’t sound like a man possessed by a demon! Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”
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Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 10
- Exod 4:11Yahweh said to him, “Who made man’s mouth? Or who makes one mute, or deaf, or seeing, or blind? Isn’t it I, Yahweh?
- Isa 35:5–6Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
- Matt 11:5the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.
- Ps 94:9He who implanted the ear, won’t he hear? He who formed the eye, won’t he see?
- John 9:32–33Since the world began it has never been heard of that anyone opened the eyes of someone born blind.
- Ps 146:8Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
- Exod 8:19Then the magicians said to Pharaoh, “This is God’s finger:” and Pharaoh’s heart was hardened, and he didn’t listen to them; as Yahweh had spoken.
- John 9:6When he had said this, he spat on the ground, made mud with the saliva, anointed the blind man’s eyes with the mud,
- Matt 4:24The report about him went out into all Syria. They brought to him all who were sick, afflicted with various diseases and torments, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics; and he healed them.
- Prov 20:12The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, Yahweh has made even both of them.
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