Luke 7:22

Jesus tells John's disciples to report the blind seeing, lame walking, lepers cleansed, deaf hearing, dead raised, and poor hearing the gospel. These fulfill messianic prophecy and answer John's question.

Cross-references · 29

• Isa 35:5–6Then the eyes of the blind will be opened, and the ears of the deaf will be unstopped.
• Isa 61:1–3The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me; because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives, and release to those who are bound;
• 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,
• Isa 29:18–19In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?
• Acts 14:8–10At Lystra a certain man sat, impotent in his feet, a cripple from his mother’s womb, who never had walked.
• Matt 9:28–30When he had come into the house, the blind men came to him. Jesus said to them, “Do you believe that I am able to do this?” They told him, “Yes, Lord.”
• Luke 8:53–55They were ridiculing him, knowing that she was dead.
• Matt 15:30–31Great multitudes came to him, having with them the lame, blind, mute, maimed, and many others, and they put them down at his feet. He healed them,
• Luke 7:14–15He came near and touched the coffin, and the bearers stood still. He said, “Young man, I tell you, arise!”
• 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.’
• Matt 21:14The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.
• Luke 17:12–19As he entered into a certain village, ten men who were lepers met him, who stood at a distance.
• Mark 7:32–37They brought to him one who was deaf and had an impediment in his speech. They begged him to lay his hand on him.
• Luke 5:12–15While he was in one of the cities, behold, there was a man full of leprosy. When he saw Jesus, he fell on his face, and begged him, saying, “Lord, if you want to, you can make me clean.”
• Job 29:15I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.
• Isa 42:16I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.
• Luke 7:21In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.
• Zeph 3:12But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.
• Isa 43:8Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.
• Isa 32:3–4The eyes of those who see will not be dim, and the ears of those who hear will listen.
• Ps 146:8Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
• Jer 31:8Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.
• Acts 8:7For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.
• John 1:46Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”
• Acts 3:2–8A certain man who was lame from his mother’s womb was being carried, whom they laid daily at the door of the temple which is called Beautiful, to ask gifts for the needy of those who entered into the temple.
• Isa 42:6–7“I, Yahweh, have called you in righteousness, and will hold your hand, and will keep you, and make you a covenant for the people, as a light for the nations;
• Luke 18:35–43As he came near Jericho, a certain blind man sat by the road, begging.
• John 9:30–33The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

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