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

"Can anything good come out of Nazareth?" asked Nathanael. "Come and see," replied Philip.

How

At that very time Jesus had cured many people of diseases, afflictions, and wicked spirits, and had given many blind people their sight.

As Jesus was getting near Jericho, a blind man was sitting by the road-side, begging.

When he had gone indoors, the blind men came up to him; and Jesus asked them: "Do you believe that I am able to do this?" "Yes, Master!" they answered.

While he was still in the Temple Courts, some blind and some lame people came up to him, and he cured them.

"Well," the man replied, "this is very strange; you do not know where he comes from, and yet he has given me my sight!

To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God; so that they may receive pardon for their sins, and a place among those who have become God's People, by faith in me.'

The lame

Great crowds of people came to him, bringing with them those who were lame, crippled, blind, or dumb, and many others. They put them down at his feet, and he cured them;

This man used to be set down every day at the gate of the Temple called 'the Beautiful Gate,' to beg of those who went in.

For there were many instances of people with foul spirits, where the spirits, with loud screams, came out of them;

In the streets of Lystra there used to sit a man who had no power in his feet; he had been lame from his birth, and had never walked.

The lepers

On one occasion Jesus was staying in a town, when he saw a man who was covered with leprosy. When the leper saw Jesus, he threw himself on his face and implored his help: "Master, if only you are willing, you are able to make me clean."

As he was entering a village, ten lepers met him.

To

'The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, For he has consecrated me to bring Good News to the poor, He has sent me to proclaim release to captives and restoration of sight to the blind, To set the oppressed at liberty,

Listen, my dear Brothers. Has not God chosen those who are poor in the things of this world to be rich through their faith, and to possess the Kingdom which he has promised to those who love him?

General references

Then he got into the boat, followed by his disciples.