'Thing' in the Bible

All [things] came into being through him, and apart from him not one [thing] came into being that has come into being.

John answered and said, "A man can receive not one [thing] unless it is granted to him from heaven!

Then that man replied, "Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One [thing] I know--that [although I] was blind, now I see!"

The man answered and said to them, "For the remarkable thing is this, that you do not know where he is from, and he opened my eyes!