John 9:3

Jesus says neither the man nor his parents sinned to cause this, but it happened so God's works might be displayed in him. Suffering can serve God's larger redemptive purpose.

Cross-references · 14

• John 11:4But when Jesus heard it, he said, “This sickness is not to death, but for the glory of God, that God’s Son may be glorified by it.”
• John 11:40Jesus said to her, “Didn’t I tell you that if you believed, you would see God’s glory?”
• Eccl 9:1–2For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn’t know it; all is before them.
• Job 2:3–6Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil. He still maintains his integrity, although you incited me against him, to ruin him without cause.”
• 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.
• Acts 4:21When they had further threatened them, they let them go, finding no way to punish them, because of the people; for everyone glorified God for that which was done.
• Job 42:7It was so, that after Yahweh had spoken these words to Job, Yahweh said to Eliphaz the Temanite, “My wrath is kindled against you, and against your two friends; for you have not spoken of me the thing that is right, as my servant Job has.
• Job 1:8–12Yahweh said to Satan, “Have you considered my servant, Job? For there is no one like him in the earth, a blameless and an upright man, one who fears God, and turns away from evil.”
• John 14:11–13Believe me that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; or else believe me for the very works’ sake.
• Acts 28:4When the natives saw the creature hanging from his hand, they said to one another, “No doubt this man is a murderer, whom, though he has escaped from the sea, yet Justice has not allowed to live.”
• Job 22:5–30Isn’t your wickedness great? Neither is there any end to your iniquities.
• Job 21:27“Behold, I know your thoughts, the devices with which you would wrong me.
• Luke 13:2–5Jesus answered them, “Do you think that these Galileans were worse sinners than all the other Galileans, because they suffered such things?
• Job 32:3Also his wrath was kindled against his three friends, because they had found no answer, and yet had condemned Job.

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