The Lord gives sight to the blind. The Lord lifts up all who are bent over. The Lord loves the godly.

Then blind eyes will open, deaf ears will hear.

At that time the deaf will be able to hear words read from a scroll, and the eyes of the blind will be able to see through deep darkness.

"Listen, you deaf ones! Take notice, you blind ones!

to open blind eyes, to release prisoners from dungeons, those who live in darkness from prisons.

So he answered them, "Go tell John what you have seen and heard: The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.

"The Spirit of the Lord is upon me, because he has anointed me to proclaim good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives and the regaining of sight to the blind, to set free those who are oppressed,

Jesus said,] "For judgment I have come into this world, so that those who do not see may gain their sight, and the ones who see may become blind."

Never before has anyone heard of someone causing a man born blind to see.

Others said, "These are not the words of someone possessed by a demon. A demon cannot cause the blind to see, can it?"

But some of them said, "This is the man who caused the blind man to see! Couldn't he have done something to keep Lazarus from dying?"

to open their eyes so that they turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, so that they may receive forgiveness of sins and a share among those who are sanctified by faith in me.'