At that very time He cured many people of diseases and afflictions and evil spirits; and He gave sight to many who were blind.
Parallel translations
- WEB In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.
- KJV And in that same hour he cured many of their infirmities and plagues, and of evil spirits; and unto many that were blind he gave sight.
- BSB At that very hour Jesus healed many people of their diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and He gave sight to many who were blind.
- NKJV And that very hour He cured many of infirmities, afflictions, and evil spirits; and to many blind He gave sight.
- NLT At that very time, Jesus cured many people of their diseases, illnesses, and evil spirits, and he restored sight to many who were blind.
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Quick answer
In that hour Jesus heals many of diseases, plagues, and evil spirits, and restores sight to the blind. His works themselves answer John's question.
Overview
Rather than merely assert His identity, Jesus performs the very deeds Scripture associated with the Messiah's coming. The healings and exorcisms provide visible proof for John's messengers to report. These works fulfill prophetic expectation and reveal Jesus as the promised One who brings God's restoring salvation.
Cross-references & the web
Cross-references · 9
- Mark 3:10For he had healed many, so that as many as had diseases pressed on him that they might touch him.
- Ps 90:7–9For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
- Mark 5:34He said to her, “Daughter, your faith has made you well. Go in peace, and be cured of your disease.”
- Jas 5:14–15Is any among you sick? Let him call for the elders of the assembly, and let them pray over him, anointing him with oil in the name of the Lord,
- Matt 4:23Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.
- 1 Kgs 8:37“If there is famine in the land, if there is pestilence, if there is blight, mildew, locust or caterpillar; if their enemy besieges them in the land of their cities; whatever plague, whatever sickness there is;
- Heb 12:6For whom the Lord loves, he chastens, and scourges every son whom he receives.”
- 1 Cor 11:30–32For this cause many among you are weak and sickly, and not a few sleep.
- Mark 5:29Immediately the flow of her blood was dried up, and she felt in her body that she was healed of her affliction.
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Luke shows Jesus the Savior for all — outsiders, the poor, the nations — the one who, on the Emmaus road, opened all the Scriptures to show they were about himself.
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