Matthew 11:5

Jesus lists His healings and gospel preaching, echoing Isaiah's portrait of the Messiah. These works confirm that the promised age has dawned in Him.

Cross-references · 36

• Isa 35:4–6Say to those with anxious hearts: “Be strong, do not fear! Behold, your God will come with vengeance. With divine retribution He will come to save you.”
• Isa 61:1–3The Spirit of the Lord GOD is on Me, because the LORD has anointed Me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent Me to bind up the brokenhearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and freedom to the prisoners,
• Isa 42:6–7“I, the LORD, have called you for a righteous purpose, and I will take hold of your hand. I will keep you and appoint you to be a covenant for the people and a light to the nations,
• 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 proclaim liberty to the captives and recovery of sight to the blind, to release the oppressed,
• Isa 29:18On that day the deaf will hear the words of the scroll, and out of the deep darkness the eyes of the blind will see.
• Luke 7:21–22At that very hour Jesus healed many people of their diseases, afflictions, and evil spirits, and He gave sight to many who were blind.
• John 14:11–12Believe Me that I am in the Father and the Father is in Me—or at least believe on account of the works themselves.
• Jas 2:5Listen, my beloved brothers: Has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith and to inherit the kingdom He promised those who love Him?
• Matt 15:30–31Large crowds came to Him, bringing the lame, the blind, the crippled, the mute, and many others, and laid them at His feet, and He healed them.
• Matt 21:14The blind and the lame came to Him at the temple, and He healed them.
• Acts 14:8–10In Lystra there sat a man crippled in his feet, who was lame from birth and had never walked.
• John 11:43–44After Jesus had said this, He called out in a loud voice, “Lazarus, come out!”
• Acts 3:2–8And a man who was lame from birth was being carried to the temple gate called Beautiful, where he was put every day to beg from those entering the temple courts.
• Ps 146:8the LORD opens the eyes of the blind, the LORD lifts those who are weighed down, the LORD loves the righteous.
• John 10:25“I already told you,” Jesus replied, “but you did not believe. The works I do in My Father’s name testify on My behalf.
• John 5:36But I have testimony more substantial than that of John. For the works that the Father has given Me to accomplish—the very works I am doing—testify about Me that the Father has sent Me.
• Isa 43:8Bring out a people who have eyes but are blind, and who have ears but are deaf.
• John 10:38But if I am doing them, even though you do not believe Me, believe the works themselves, so that you may know and understand that the Father is in Me, and I am in the Father.”
• Acts 4:9–10If we are being examined today about a kind service to a man who was lame, to determine how he was healed,
• Matt 9:30And their eyes were opened. Jesus warned them sternly, “See that no one finds out about this!”
• Matt 9:24–25“Go away,” He told them. “The girl is not dead, but asleep.” And they laughed at Him.
• 2 Kgs 5:14So Naaman went down and dipped himself in the Jordan seven times, according to the word of the man of God, and his flesh was restored and became like that of a little child, and he was clean.
• Ps 22:26The poor will eat and be satisfied; those who seek the LORD will praise Him. May your hearts live forever!
• 2 Kgs 5:7When the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and asked, “Am I God, killing and giving life, that this man expects me to cure a leper? Surely you can see that he is seeking a quarrel with me!”
• Luke 7:14–16Then He went up and touched the coffin, and those carrying it stood still. “Young man,” He said, “I tell you, get up!”
• Isa 66:2Has not My hand made all these things? And so they came into being,” declares the LORD. “This is the one I will esteem: he who is humble and contrite in spirit, who trembles at My word.
• Ps 72:12–13For he will deliver the needy who cry out and the afflicted who have no helper.
• Mark 7:37The people were utterly astonished and said, “He has done all things well! He makes even the deaf hear and the mute speak!”
• Matt 8:1–4When Jesus came down from the mountain, large crowds followed Him.
• John 2:23While He was in Jerusalem at the Passover Feast, many people saw the signs He was doing and believed in His name.
• John 3:2He came to Jesus at night and said, “Rabbi, we know that You are a teacher who has come from God. For no one could perform the signs You are doing if God were not with him.”
• Mark 9:25When Jesus saw that a crowd had come running, He rebuked the unclean spirit. “You deaf and mute spirit,” He said, “I command you to come out and never enter him again.”
• Matt 10:8Heal the sick, raise the dead, cleanse the lepers, drive out demons. Freely you have received; freely give.
• Matt 5:3“Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
• Zech 11:7So I pastured the flock marked for slaughter, especially the afflicted of the flock. Then I took for myself two staffs, calling one Favor and the other Union, and I pastured the flock.
• Acts 2:22Men of Israel, listen to this message: Jesus of Nazareth was a man certified by God to you by miracles, wonders, and signs, which God did among you through Him, as you yourselves know.

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