John 9:3
Good News Translation
Jesus answered, "His blindness has nothing to do with his sins or his parents' sins. He is blind so that God's power might be seen at work in him.

New Revised Standard Version
Jesus answered, “Neither this man nor his parents sinned; he was born blind so that God’s works might be revealed in him.

Contemporary English Version
"No, it wasn't!" Jesus answered. "But because of his blindness, you will see God work a miracle for him.

New American Bible
Jesus answered, “Neither he nor his parents sinned; it is so that the works of God might be made visible through him.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him.

Neither.

Job 1:8-12 And the Lord said to him: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a simple and upright man, and fearing God, and avoiding evil? . . .

Job 2:3-6 And the Lord said to Satan: Hast thou considered my servant, Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a man simple and upright, and fearing God, and avoiding evil, and still keeping his innocence? But thou hast moved me against him, that I should afflict him without cause. . . .

Job 21:27 Surely I know your thoughts, and your unjust judgments against me.

Job 22:5 And not for thy manifold wickedness and thy infinite iniquities?

*etc:

Job 32:3 And he was angry with his friends, because they had not found a reasonable answer, but only had condemned Job.

Job 42:7 And after the Lord had spoken these words to Job, he said to Eliphaz the Themanite: My wrath is kindled against thee, and against thy two friends, because you have not spoken the thing that is right before me, as my servant Job hath.

Ecclesiastes 9:1,2 All these things have I considered in my heart, that I might carefully understand them: there are just men and wise men, and their works are in the hand of God: and yet man knoweth not whether he be worthy of love, or hatred: . . .

Luke 13:2-5 And he answering, said to them: Think you that these Galileans were sinners above all the men of Galilee, because they suffered such things? . . .

Acts 28:4 And when the barbarians saw the beast hanging on his hand, they said one to another: Undoubtedly this man is a murderer, who, though he hath escaped the sea, yet vengeance doth not suffer him to live.

but.

John 11:4,40 And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it. . . .

John 14:11-13 Believe you not that I am in the Father and the Father in me? . . .

Matthew 11:5 The blind see, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead rise again, the poor have the gospel preached to them.

Acts 4:21 But they, threatening, sent them away, not finding how they might punish them, because of the people: for all men glorified what had been done, in that which had come to pass.

Context
Jesus Heals the Man Born Blind
2And his disciples asked him: Rabbi, who hath sinned, this man or his parents, that he should be born blind? 3Jesus answered: Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. 4I must work the works of him that sent me, whilst it is day: the night cometh, when no man can work.…
Cross References
John 11:4
And Jesus hearing it, said to them: This sickness is not unto death, but for the glory of God: that the Son of God may be glorified by it.

1 John 4:9
By this hath the charity of God appeared towards us, because God hath sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we may live by him.

1 John 4:16
And we have known and have believed the charity which God hath to us. God is charity: and he that abideth in charity abideth in God, and God in him.

John 9:2
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