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 strictly charged them, saying, 'See, let no one know;'

Jehovah is loosing the prisoners, Jehovah is opening (the eyes of) the blind, Jehovah is raising the bowed down, Jehovah is loving the righteous,

And heard in that day have the deaf the words of a book, And out of thick darkness, and out of darkness, The eyes of the blind do see.

Say to the hastened of heart, 'Be strong, Fear not, lo, your God; vengeance cometh, The recompence of God, He Himself doth come and save you.'

I, Jehovah, did call thee in righteousness, And I lay hold on thy hand, and keep thee, And I give thee for a covenant of a people, And a light of nations.

The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, Because He did anoint me; To proclaim good news to the poor, Sent me to heal the broken of heart, To proclaim to captives deliverance, And to blind receiving of sight, To send away the bruised with deliverance,

And in that hour he cured many from sicknesses, and plagues, and evil spirits, and to many blind he granted sight.

And as he was in Jerusalem, in the passover, in the feast, many believed in his name, beholding his signs that he was doing;

this one came unto him by night, and said to him, 'Rabbi, we have known that from God thou hast come -- a teacher, for no one these signs is able to do that thou dost, if God may not be with him.'

'But I have the testimony greater than John's, for the works that the Father gave me, that I might finish them, the works themselves that I do, they testify concerning me, that the Father hath sent me.

Jesus answered them, 'I told you, and ye do not believe; the works that I do in the name of my Father, these testify concerning me;

believe me, that I am in the Father, and the Father in me; and if not, because of the works themselves, believe me.

'Men, Israelites! hear these words, Jesus the Nazarene, a man approved of God among you by mighty works, and wonders, and signs, that God did through him in the midst of you, according as also ye yourselves have known;

if we to-day are examined concerning the good deed to the ailing man, by whom he hath been saved,

The lame

and there came to him great multitudes, having with them lame, blind, dumb, maimed, and many others, and they did cast them at the feet of Jesus, and he healed them,

And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them,

and a certain man, being lame from the womb of his mother, was being carried, whom they were laying every day at the gate of the temple, called Beautiful, to ask a kindness from those entering into the temple,

And a certain man in Lystra, impotent in the feet, was sitting, being lame from the womb of his mother -- who never had walked,

The lepers

And when he came down from the mount, great multitudes did follow him,

infirm ones be healing, lepers be cleansing, dead be raising, demons be casting out -- freely ye did receive, freely give.

And it cometh to pass, at the king of Israel's reading the letter, that he rendeth his garments, and saith, 'Am I God, to put to death and to keep alive, that this one is sending unto me to recover a man from his leprosy? for surely know, I pray you, and see, for he is presenting himself to me.'

The dead

he saith to them, 'Withdraw, for the damsel did not die, but doth sleep,' and they were deriding him;

and having come near, he touched the bier, and those bearing it stood still, and he said, 'Young man, to thee I say, Arise;'

And these things saying, with a loud voice he cried out, 'Lazarus, come forth;'

General references

And I -- I said, 'Surely these are poor, They have been foolish, For they have not known the way of Jehovah, The judgment of their God.

And Jesus was going up and down all the cities and the villages, teaching in their synagogues, and proclaiming the good news of the reign, and healing every sickness and every malady among the people.

And there came to him blind and lame men in the temple, and he healed them,

and immediately were his ears opened, and the string of his tongue was loosed, and he was speaking plain.

and he said to them, -- 'The Son of Man is lord also of the sabbath.'

And the disciples of John told him about all these things,