Man blind from birth. Whose sin was it, his or his parents'?
Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth, and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
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Man blind from birth. Whose sin was it, his or his parents'?
Now as Jesus was passing by, He saw a man blind from birth, and His disciples asked Him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?”
Neither this man nor his parents sinned. It happened so that God's work could be seen in him.
Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned, but this happened so that the works of God would be displayed in him.
Mud on my eyes. Washed in the Pool of Siloam. I can see.
When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes. Then He told him, “Go, wash in the Pool of Siloam” (which means “Sent”). So the man went and washed, and came back seeing.
Replying to @icannowsee
Wait. Isn't that the man who used to sit and beg?
At this, his neighbors and those who had formerly seen him begging began to ask, “Isn’t this the man who used to sit and beg?”
Taken to the Pharisees. Because it was the Sabbath, apparently.
They brought to the Pharisees the man who had been blind. Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath. So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”
Replying to @icannowsee
This man is not from God. He does not keep the Sabbath.
Because of this, some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for He does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, “How can a sinful man perform such signs?” And there was division among them.
The leaders called us in. Yes, he's our son. Yes, he was born blind. How he sees now, or who did it, we don't know. Ask him. He's old enough.
and asked, “Is this your son, the one you say was born blind? So how is it that he can now see?” His parents answered, “We know he is our son, and we know he was born blind. But how he can now see or who opened his eyes, we do not know. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”
Replying to @askhimhesoldenough
They were afraid. Anyone who said Jesus was the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
His parents said this because they were afraid of the Jews. For the Jews had already determined that anyone who confessed Jesus as the Christ would be put out of the synagogue.
They called me back in. Told me to give glory to God, because they know this man's a sinner. Whether he's a sinner, I don't know. One thing I do know. I was blind, and now I see.
So a second time they called for the man who had been blind and said, “Give glory to God! We know that this man is a sinner.” He answered, “Whether He is a sinner I do not know. There is one thing I do know: I was blind, but now I see!”
They made me go through it all again. I'd already told them, and they didn't listen. So I asked if they wanted to become his disciples too.
“What did He do to you?” they asked. “How did He open your eyes?” He replied, “I already told you, and you did not listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become His disciples?”
Replying to @icannowsee
You are his disciple. We are disciples of Moses.
Then they heaped insults on him and said, “You are His disciple; we are disciples of Moses.
Honestly. Nobody has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a man born blind. If he weren't from God, he couldn't do anything.
Never before has anyone heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind. If this man were not from God, He could do no such thing.”
Replying to @icannowsee
You were soaked in sin from the day you were born, and you're lecturing us?
They replied, “You were born in utter sin, and you are instructing us?” And they threw him out.
The king wants young men from Israel’s royal family and nobility. Good-looking, sharp, quick to learn. Three years learning the language and the books of the Babylonians, with food and wine from the king’s own table. Then into the king’s service.
Then the king ordered Ashpenaz, the chief of his court officials, to bring in some Israelites from the royal family and the nobility— young men without blemish, handsome, gifted in all wisdom, knowledgeable, quick to understand, and qualified to serve in the king’s palace—and to teach them the language and literature of the Chaldeans. The king assigned them daily provisions of the royal food and wine. They were to be trained for three years, after which they were to enter the king’s service.
Replying to @bookofdaniel
Four of us from Judah: me, Hananiah, Mishael and Azariah. They’ve given us new names, apparently. I’m Belteshazzar now. They’re Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego.
Among these young men were some from Judah: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. The chief official gave them new names: To Daniel he gave the name Belteshazzar; to Hananiah, Shadrach; to Mishael, Meshach; and to Azariah, Abednego.
Made up my mind: I’m not going to make myself unclean with the king’s food and wine. Asked the chief official if I could be excused.
But Daniel made up his mind that he would not defile himself with the king’s food or wine. So he asked the chief official for permission not to defile himself.
Replying to @daniel
I like the lad. But I’m scared of the king. He decided what they eat. If he sees them looking thinner than the others their age, it’s my head.
Now God had granted Daniel favor and compassion from the chief official, but he said to Daniel, “I fear my lord the king, who has assigned your food and drink. For why should he see your faces looking thinner than those of the other young men your age? You would endanger my head before the king!”
Ten days on vegetables and water. They look healthier and better fed than every one of the lads on the king’s food. So vegetables it is.
So he consented to this and tested them for ten days. And at the end of ten days, they looked healthier and better nourished than all the young men who were eating the king’s food. So the steward continued to withhold their choice food and the wine they were to drink, and he gave them vegetables instead.
Interviewed the young men who’ve finished their training. Nobody comes close to the four from Judah. Whatever I ask them, they’re ten times better than every magician and enchanter in my kingdom.
Now at the end of the time specified by the king, the chief official presented them to Nebuchadnezzar. And the king spoke with them, and among all the young men he found no one equal to Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. So they entered the king’s service. In every matter of wisdom and understanding about which the king consulted them, he found them ten times better than all the magicians and enchanters in his entire kingdom.
Replying to @nebuchadnezzar
God gave the four of them knowledge and understanding of every kind of learning. And Daniel could understand visions and dreams of every kind.
To these four young men God gave knowledge and understanding in every kind of literature and wisdom. And Daniel had insight into all kinds of visions and dreams.
If I speak in the languages of people and of angels but don’t have love, I’m just a noisy gong. A clanging cymbal. If I have faith that can move mountains but don’t have love, I’m nothing.
If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am only a ringing gong or a clanging cymbal. If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have absolute faith so as to move mountains, but have not love, I am nothing.
Love is patient. Love is kind. It doesn’t envy. It doesn’t boast. It isn’t proud. It isn’t rude. It doesn’t insist on its own way. It isn’t easily angered. It keeps no record of wrongs. It takes no pleasure in evil, but is glad about the truth. It puts up with everything, believes the best, keeps hoping, keeps going.
Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs. Love takes no pleasure in evil, but rejoices in the truth. It bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.
Replying to @paul
Reading this in a church where we take each other to court.
It is not rude, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no account of wrongs.
When I was a child, I talked like a child and thought like a child. When I grew up, I put childish ways behind me. For now we see a dim reflection, like in a mirror. Then we’ll see face to face. Now I know in part. Then I’ll know fully, the way I’m fully known.
When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I set aside childish ways. Now we see but a dim reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
Back in Egypt we sat round pots of meat and ate all the bread we wanted. And you’ve dragged us out here to starve the whole lot of us to death.
“If only we had died by the LORD’s hand in the land of Egypt!” they said. “There we sat by pots of meat and ate our fill of bread, but you have brought us into this desert to starve this whole assembly to death!”
Replying to @theisraelites
Who are we? You’re not grumbling against Aaron and me. You’re grumbling against the LORD.
And Moses added, “The LORD will give you meat to eat this evening and bread to fill you in the morning, for He has heard your grumbling against Him. Who are we? Your grumblings are not against us but against the LORD.”
genuine question. there are thin white flakes all over the ground this morning, fine as frost. what is it
When the layer of dew had evaporated, there were thin flakes on the desert floor, as fine as frost on the ground. When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
Replying to @israelite.manna
It’s the bread the LORD has given you to eat.
When the Israelites saw it, they asked one another, “What is it?” For they did not know what it was. So Moses told them, “It is the bread that the LORD has given you to eat.
some of us gathered loads, some not much. when we measured it, nobody had too much and nobody had too little. how
So the Israelites did this. Some gathered more, and some less. When they measured it by the omer, he who gathered much had no excess, and he who gathered little had no shortfall. Each one gathered as much as he needed to eat.
kept some overnight. maggots. and the smell. do not recommend
But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
Replying to @israelite.manna
I told you not to.
Then Moses said to them, “No one may keep any of it until morning.” But they did not listen to Moses; some people left part of it until morning, and it became infested with maggots and began to smell. So Moses was angry with them.
You won’t believe what happened today. We were hiding at the back of a cave near En-gedi, and who walks in to relieve himself? Saul.
Soon Saul came to the sheepfolds along the road, where there was a cave, and he went in to relieve himself. And David and his men were hiding in the recesses of the cave.
Replying to @davidsmen
Told David this was the day the LORD talked about. He crept up and cut off a corner of Saul’s robe. That’s it. A corner.
So David’s men said to him, “This is the day about which the LORD said to you, ‘Behold, I will deliver your enemy into your hand, that you may do with him as you wish.’” Then David crept up and stealthily cut off a corner of Saul’s robe.
It was David’s voice. My son. I wept. He’s more in the right than I am. He paid me back with good, and I paid him back with evil.
Went out after him and called out to the king. Bowed to the ground and held up the corner of his robe. Told him: the LORD put you in my hands in that cave. I was told to kill you. I didn’t. Let the LORD judge between us.When David had finished saying these things, Saul called back, “Is that your voice, David my son?” Then Saul wept aloud and said to David, “You are more righteous than I, for you have rewarded me with good, though I have rewarded you with evil.
Got a letter from Sennacherib. Took it up to the house of the LORD and spread it out in front of him. LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim: you alone are God of every kingdom on earth. Their gods were only wood and stone, made by human hands. Save us, so every kingdom knows that you alone are the LORD.
So Hezekiah received the letter from the messengers, read it, and went up to the house of the LORD and spread it out before the LORD. And Hezekiah prayed before the LORD: “O LORD, God of Israel, enthroned between the cherubim, You alone are God over all the kingdoms of the earth. You made the heavens and the earth. Incline Your ear, O LORD, and hear; open Your eyes, O LORD, and see. Listen to the words that Sennacherib has sent to defy the living God. Truly, O LORD, the kings of Assyria have laid waste these nations and their lands. They have cast their gods into the fire and destroyed them, for they were not gods, but only wood and stone—the work of human hands. And now, O LORD our God, please save us from his hand, so that all the kingdoms of the earth may know that You alone, O LORD, are God.”
To Hezekiah. The LORD has heard your prayer about Sennacherib. Jerusalem shakes her head and laughs at you, Assyria. I’ll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and send you home the way you came. He won’t enter this city or shoot one arrow here. I’ll defend this city, for my sake and for David’s.
Then Isaiah son of Amoz sent a message to Hezekiah: “This is what the LORD, the God of Israel, says: I have heard your prayer concerning Sennacherib king of Assyria. This is the word that the LORD has spoken against him: ‘The Virgin Daughter of Zion despises you and mocks you; the Daughter of Jerusalem shakes her head behind you. Because your rage and arrogance against Me have reached My ears, I will put My hook in your nose and My bit in your mouth; I will send you back the way you came.’ So this is what the LORD says about the king of Assyria: ‘He will not enter this city or shoot an arrow into it. He will not come before it with a shield or build up a siege ramp against it. He will go back the way he came, and he will not enter this city, declares the LORD. I will defend this city and save it for My own sake and for the sake of My servant David.’”
Morning, and the Assyrian camp outside is full of dead men. 185,000. Everyone’s saying the angel of the LORD went through it in the night. Sennacherib has packed up and gone home to Nineveh.
To Hezekiah. The LORD has heard your prayer about Sennacherib. Jerusalem shakes her head and laughs at you, Assyria. I’ll put my hook in your nose and my bit in your mouth, and send you home the way you came. He won’t enter this city or shoot one arrow here. I’ll defend this city, for my sake and for David’s.And that very night the angel of the LORD went out and struck down 185,000 men in the camp of the Assyrians. When the people got up the next morning, there were all the dead bodies! So Sennacherib king of Assyria broke camp and withdrew. He returned to Nineveh and stayed there.
The LORD is going to create new heavens and a new earth. Nobody will even remember the old ones. No more crying heard in Jerusalem. No more babies who only live a few days. People will build houses and live in them, plant vineyards and eat the grapes themselves. Before they call, he’ll answer.
For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind. But be glad and rejoice forever in what I create; for I will create Jerusalem to be a joy and its people to be a delight. I will rejoice in Jerusalem and take delight in My people. The sounds of weeping and crying will no longer be heard in her. No longer will a nursing infant live but a few days, or an old man fail to live out his years. For the youth will die at a hundred years, and he who fails to reach a hundred will be considered accursed. They will build houses and dwell in them; they will plant vineyards and eat their fruit. No longer will they build houses for others to inhabit, nor plant for others to eat. For as is the lifetime of a tree, so will be the days of My people, and My chosen ones will fully enjoy the work of their hands. They will not labor in vain or bear children doomed to disaster; for they will be a people blessed by the LORD—they and their descendants with them. Even before they call, I will answer, and while they are still speaking, I will hear.
New heavens and a new earth. The Bible opened with the first ones.
Let’s start at the actual beginning. Before anything, there’s God. Then God creates the heavens and the earth. It’s dark and empty, deep water everywhere, and God’s Spirit is hovering over the surface.For behold, I will create new heavens and a new earth. The former things will not be remembered, nor will they come to mind.
The wolf and the lamb eating together. The lion eating straw like an ox. Nothing hurting or destroying anything on his holy mountain. Said it before. Saying it again.
The wolf will live with the lamb. The leopard will lie down with the young goat. Calf and lion together, and a little child leading them. A toddler playing by a cobra’s hole. Nothing will hurt or destroy on all the LORD’s holy mountain, because the earth will be as full of knowing the LORD as the sea is full of water.The wolf and the lamb will feed together, and the lion will eat straw like the ox, but the food of the serpent will be dust. They will neither harm nor destroy on all My holy mountain,” says the LORD.
Tenth year of King Zedekiah. The Babylonian army has Jerusalem surrounded. Jeremiah is shut up in the courtyard of the guard at the palace.
This is the word that came to Jeremiah from the LORD in the tenth year of Zedekiah king of Judah, which was the eighteenth year of Nebuchadnezzar. At that time the army of the king of Babylon was besieging Jerusalem, and Jeremiah the prophet was imprisoned in the courtyard of the guard, which was in the palace of the king of Judah.
Popped in to see my cousin Jeremiah in the courtyard of the guard. Asked if he’d buy my field in Anathoth. He’s family, so he gets first dibs.
Then, as the LORD had said, my cousin Hanamel came to me in the courtyard of the guard and urged me, ‘Please buy my field in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin, for you own the right of inheritance and redemption. Buy it for yourself.’” Then I knew that this was the word of the LORD.
Replying to @hanamel.anathoth
The LORD told me you’d come. So I bought it. Seventeen shekels of silver weighed out on the scales. Signed, sealed, witnesses, the lot.
Behold! Hanamel, the son of your uncle Shallum, is coming to you to say, ‘Buy for yourself my field in Anathoth, for you have the right of redemption to buy it.’ So I bought the field in Anathoth from my cousin Hanamel, and I weighed out seventeen shekels of silver. I signed and sealed the deed, called in witnesses, and weighed out the silver on the scales.
Lord God. You made the heavens and the earth by your great power. Nothing is too hard for you. The siege ramps are up against the city, and you’ve told me to buy a field.
“Oh, Lord GOD! You have made the heavens and the earth by Your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too difficult for You! See how the siege ramps are mounted against the city to capture it. And by sword and famine and plague, the city has been given into the hands of the Chaldeans who are fighting against it. What You have spoken has happened, as You now see! Yet You, O Lord GOD, have said to me, ‘Buy for yourself the field with silver and call in witnesses, even though the city has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans!’”
Replying to @jeremiah
His answer: I am the LORD, the God of everyone alive. Is anything too hard for me? Fields will be bought in this land again.
Then the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah: “Behold, I am the LORD, the God of all flesh. Is anything too difficult for Me? And fields will be bought in this land about which you are saying, ‘It is a desolation, without man or beast; it has been delivered into the hands of the Chaldeans.’
Welcome to Susa, capital of Persia. The king is Xerxes, and he rules 127 provinces, from India to Cush at the far end of the Nile. Third year of his reign, he throws a party for every official and army leader in the empire. It lasts 180 days. The point is to show off how rich he is.
This is what happened in the days of Xerxes, who reigned over 127 provinces from India to Cush. In those days King Xerxes sat on his royal throne in the citadel of Susa. In the third year of his reign, Xerxes held a feast for all his officials and servants. The military leaders of Persia and Media were there, along with the nobles and princes of the provinces. And for a full 180 days he displayed the glorious riches of his kingdom and the magnificent splendor of his greatness.
And straight after that, a seven-day party in the palace garden for everyone in Susa, from the least important to the greatest. Things I saw: 1. White and blue linen hangings on silver rings and marble pillars. 2. Gold and silver couches on a mosaic floor. 3. Gold cups, every one a different design. 4. King's orders: no limit on the drinking.
Welcome to Susa, capital of Persia. The king is Xerxes, and he rules 127 provinces, from India to Cush at the far end of the Nile. Third year of his reign, he throws a party for every official and army leader in the empire. It lasts 180 days. The point is to show off how rich he is.At the end of this time, in the garden court of the royal palace, the king held a seven-day feast for all the people in the citadel of Susa, from the least to the greatest. Hangings of white and blue linen were fastened with cords of fine white and purple material to silver rings on the marble pillars. Gold and silver couches were arranged on a mosaic pavement of porphyry, marble, mother-of-pearl, and other costly stones. Beverages were served in an array of goblets of gold, each with a different design, and the royal wine flowed freely, according to the king’s bounty. By order of the king, no limit was placed on the drinking, and every official of his household was to serve each man whatever he desired.
Day seven. The king had had a fair bit to drink, and sent seven of us to bring Queen Vashti, wearing her crown, so the people and officials could see how beautiful she is. She was giving her own banquet for the women inside the palace at the time.
Queen Vashti also gave a banquet for the women in the royal palace of King Xerxes. On the seventh day, when the king’s heart was merry with wine, he ordered the seven eunuchs who served him—Mehuman, Biztha, Harbona, Bigtha, Abagtha, Zethar, and Carkas— to bring Queen Vashti before him, wearing her royal crown, to display her beauty to the people and officials. For she was beautiful to behold.
Replying to @harbonah
She said no.
Queen Vashti, however, refused to come at the king’s command brought by his eunuchs. And the king became furious, and his anger burned within him.
My view, since the king asked. The queen hasn't just wronged the king. She's wronged every official and every people in the empire. When women hear about this they'll look down on their husbands. They'll say the king sent for Queen Vashti and she didn't come. So: a royal decree, written into the laws of Persia and Media so it can never be undone. Vashti never comes before the king again, and her position goes to someone better.
And in the presence of the king and his princes, Memucan replied, “Queen Vashti has wronged not only the king, but all the princes and the peoples in all the provinces of King Xerxes. For the conduct of the queen will become known to all women, causing them to despise their husbands and say, ‘King Xerxes ordered Queen Vashti to be brought before him, but she did not come.’ This very day the noble women of Persia and Media who have heard about the queen’s conduct will say the same thing to all the king’s officials, resulting in much contempt and wrath. So if it pleases the king, let him issue a royal decree, and let it be recorded in the laws of Persia and Media so that it cannot be repealed, that Vashti shall never again enter the presence of King Xerxes, and that her royal position shall be given to a woman better than she.
Replying to @memucan
The king loves it. Letters go out to every province, each in its own script and each people in its own language: every man is to be in charge of his own household.
The king and his princes were pleased with this counsel; so the king did as Memucan advised. He sent letters to all the provinces of the kingdom, to each province in its own script and to each people in their own language, proclaiming that every man should be master of his own household.
Colossae. We’ve never stopped praying for you since the day we heard about you. God has rescued us from the power of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of the Son he loves. In him we’re set free, our sins forgiven.
For this reason, since the day we heard about you, we have not stopped praying for you and asking God to fill you with the knowledge of His will in all spiritual wisdom and understanding, He has rescued us from the dominion of darkness and brought us into the kingdom of His beloved Son, in whom we have redemption, the forgiveness of sins.
The Son is the image of the invisible God. Everything was made in him: in heaven and on earth, seen and unseen, thrones, powers, rulers, authorities. All of it was made through him and for him. He was there before anything else, and in him everything holds together.
The Son is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn over all creation. For in Him all things were created, things in heaven and on earth, visible and invisible, whether thrones or dominions or rulers or authorities. All things were created through Him and for Him. He is before all things, and in Him all things hold together.
Replying to @paul
God was pleased to have all his fullness live in him, and through him to bring everything back to himself, making peace through the blood of his cross.
For God was pleased to have all His fullness dwell in Him, and through Him to reconcile to Himself all things, whether things on earth or things in heaven, by making peace through the blood of His cross.
A secret kept hidden for ages and generations, and now it’s out. Here it is: Christ in you, the hope of glory.
the mystery that was hidden for ages and generations but is now revealed to His saints. To them God has chosen to make known among the Gentiles the glorious riches of this mystery, which is Christ in you, the hope of glory.