Matthew 11:5

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Blind

The lame

The lepers

Matthew 8:1

Matthew 10:8

2 Kings 5:7

The dead

Matthew 9:24

Luke 7:14

John 11:43

General references

Bible References

Blind

And their eyes were opened, and Jesus sternly warned them, saying, "See [that] no one finds out."

Yahweh opens [the eyes of the] blind; Yahweh raises up [those] bowed down; Yahweh loves [the] righteous;

And on that day, the deaf shall hear [the] words of a scroll, and [the] eyes of [the] blind shall see out of gloom and darkness.

Say to those who are hasty of heart, "Be strong; you must not fear! Look! your God will come [with] vengeance, [with] {divine retribution}. He {is the one who} will come and save you."

"I [am] Yahweh; I have called you in righteousness, and I have grasped your hand and watched over you; and I have given you as a covenant of [the] people, as a light of [the] nations,

"The Spirit of the Lord [is] upon me, because of which he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovery of sight to the blind, to send out in freedom those who are oppressed,

In that hour he healed many [people] of diseases and suffering and evil spirits, and he granted sight to many blind [people].

Now while he was in Jerusalem at the Passover, during the feast, many believed in his name [because they] saw his signs which he was doing.

This man came to him at night and said to him, "Rabbi, we know that [you are] a teacher who has come from God, for no one is able to perform these signs that you are performing unless God were with him."

"But I have a testimony greater than John's, for the works which the Father has given to me that I should complete them--the very works which I am doing--[these] testify about me, that the Father has sent me.

Jesus answered them, "I told you and you do not believe! The deeds that I do in the name of my Father, these testify about me.

Believe me that I [am] in the Father and the Father [is] in me; but if not, believe because of the works themselves.

"Israelite men, listen to these words! Jesus the Nazarene, a man attested to you by God with deeds of power and wonders and signs that God did through him in your midst, just as [you] yourselves know--

if we are being examined today concerning a good deed [done to] a sick man--by what [means] this man was healed--

The lame

And large crowds came to him, having with them [the] mute, blind, lame, crippled, and many others, and they put them down at his feet, and he healed them.

And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple [courts] and he healed them.

And a certain man was being carried who was lame {from birth}. {He} was placed every day at the gate of the temple called "Beautiful," [so that he] could ask for charitable gifts from those who were going into the temple [courts].

And in Lystra a certain man was sitting powerless in his feet, lame from {birth}, who had never walked.

The lepers

And [when] he came down from the mountain, large crowds followed him.

Heal those who are sick, raise the dead, cleanse lepers, expel demons. Freely you have received; freely give.

It happened that when the king of Israel read the letter, he tore his clothes and said, "Am I God to cause death or to give life? This man [is] sending a man to me to cure his disease. Indeed! But know and see that he seeks an opportunity against me."

The dead

he said, "Go away, because the girl is not dead, but is sleeping." And they ridiculed him.

And he came up [and] touched the bier, and those who were carrying [it] stopped. And he said, "Young man, I say to you, get up!"

And [when he] had said these [things], he cried out with a loud voice, "Lazarus, come out!"

General references

Then I said, "[They are] just simple people, they are foolish, for they know not the way of Yahweh, the law of their God.

And Jesus was going around all the towns and the villages, teaching in their synagogues and proclaiming the good news of the kingdom and healing every disease and every sickness.

And the blind and the lame came up to him in the temple [courts] and he healed them.

And his ears were opened and {his difficulty in speaking was removed} and he began to speak normally.

And he said to them, "The Son of Man is Lord of the Sabbath."

And his disciples reported to John about all these [things]. And summoning a certain two of his disciples, John