Luke 7:22

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

Then Jesus answering said unto them, Go your way, and tell John what things ye have seen and heard; how that the blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, to the poor the gospel is preached.

Go

John 1:46

How

The lame

The lepers

Luke 5:12

Luke 17:12

To

Luke 4:18

James 2:5

General references

Matthew 8:23

Bible References

Go

And Nathanael said to him, "Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" Philip said to him, "Come and see."

How

At that moment Jesus was healing many people of diseases and plagues and evil spirits, and to many that were blind he was freely giving their sight.

As Jesus drew near to Jericho, there was a blind man who sat by the wayside begging.

And when he had gone indoors, they came to him. "Do you believe that I can do this?" asked Jesus. "Yes, Lord," they answered.

Then the blind and the lame came to him in the Temple courts, and he healed them.

"This is truly astonishing," said the man in reply, "that you do not know where he is from, and yet he has opened my eyes.

"'so that they may turn from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan unto God, in order to receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'

The lame

Great crowds came to him, bringing the crippled, the blind, the maimed, the dumb, and many others. They laid them at his feet and he healed them;

when a man lame from his birth was carried along, who was wont to be laid each day near the gate of the Temple called the Beautiful Gate, to ask alms of those who were going into the Temple.

For with a loud cry unclean spirits would come out of many possessed by them, and many that were palsied and lame were healed.

Now at Lystra there used to sit a certain man, lame in his feet, a cripple from birth, who had never walked.

The lepers

Another time when he was in one of their cities, there was a man there full of leprosy. And he, upon seeing Jesus, fell on his face and implored him. "Lord," he said, "if only you choose you can make me clean."

And as he was going certain village ten lepers met him.

To

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me Because He has anointed me to preach the gospel to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to the prisoners, And recovery of sight to the blind; To set at liberty those that are bruised,

Listen, my dear brothers, has not God chosen the poor of this world to be rich in faith, and to inherit the kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

General references

Then he went in board a fishing-boat, his disciples accompanying him;