John 9:39

Jesus declares that His coming brings a dividing judgment: the spiritually blind receive sight, while the self-assured are exposed as blind. His presence reveals where people truly stand.

Cross-references · 31

• John 3:19This is the judgment, that the light has come into the world, and men loved the darkness rather than the light; for their works were evil.
• Acts 26:18to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’
• John 12:46I have come as a light into the world, that whoever believes in me may not remain in the darkness.
• John 8:12Again, therefore, Jesus spoke to them, saying, “I am the light of the world. He who follows me will not walk in the darkness, but will have the light of life.”
• Luke 4:18“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,
• 1 Jn 2:11But he who hates his brother is in the darkness, and walks in the darkness, and doesn’t know where he is going, because the darkness has blinded his eyes.
• John 12:40–41“He has blinded their eyes and he hardened their heart, lest they should see with their eyes, and perceive with their heart, and would turn, and I would heal them.”
• Luke 1:79to shine on those who sit in darkness and the shadow of death; to guide our feet into the way of peace.”
• 2 Cor 4:4–6in whom the god of this world has blinded the minds of the unbelieving, that the light of the Good News of the glory of Christ, who is the image of God, should not dawn on them.
• John 5:22–27For the Father judges no one, but he has given all judgment to the Son,
• Rom 11:7–10What then? That which Israel seeks for, that he didn’t obtain, but the chosen ones obtained it, and the rest were hardened.
• Matt 13:13–15Therefore I speak to them in parables, because seeing they don’t see, and hearing, they don’t hear, neither do they understand.
• John 3:17For God didn’t send his Son into the world to judge the world, but that the world should be saved through him.
• John 9:25He therefore answered, “I don’t know if he is a sinner. One thing I do know: that though I was blind, now I see.”
• John 8:15You judge according to the flesh. I judge no one.
• Jer 1:9–10Then Yahweh stretched out his hand, and touched my mouth. Then Yahweh said to me, “Behold, I have put my words in your mouth.
• Isa 6:9He said, “Go, and tell this people, ‘You hear indeed, but don’t understand; and you see indeed, but don’t perceive.’
• Isa 44:18They don’t know, neither do they consider: for he has shut their eyes, that they can’t see; and their hearts, that they can’t understand.
• Luke 2:34and Simeon blessed them, and said to Mary, his mother, “Behold, this child is set for the falling and the rising of many in Israel, and for a sign which is spoken against.
• Luke 7:21In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.
• Luke 11:34–35The lamp of the body is the eye. Therefore when your eye is good, your whole body is also full of light; but when it is evil, your body also is full of darkness.
• Luke 13:30Behold, there are some who are last who will be first, and there are some who are first who will be last.”
• 2 Cor 2:16to the one a stench from death to death; to the other a sweet aroma from life to life. Who is sufficient for these things?
• Eph 5:14Therefore he says, “Awake, you who sleep, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.”
• Matt 6:23But if your eye is evil, your whole body will be full of darkness. If therefore the light that is in you is darkness, how great is the darkness!
• 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.
• John 9:36–38He answered, “Who is he, Lord, that I may believe in him?”
• 1 Pet 2:9But you are a chosen race, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a people for God’s own possession, that you may proclaim the excellence of him who called you out of darkness into his marvelous light:
• Isa 42:18–20“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.
• Isa 29:10For Yahweh has poured out on you a spirit of deep sleep, and has closed your eyes, the prophets; and he has covered your heads, the seers.
• 2 Th 2:10and with all deception of wickedness for those who are being lost, because they didn’t receive the love of the truth, that they might be saved.

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