Isaiah 35:5 Cross References - NSB

⁵ Then the blind will be able to see, and the deaf will hear.

¹¹ Jehovah said to him: »Who has made man’s mouth? Or who makes him mute or deaf, or seeing or blind? Is it not I, Jehovah?

¹⁶ he may speak in their ears and terrify them with warnings,

⁸ Jehovah opens the eyes of the blind. Jehovah raises up those who are bowed down. Jehovah loves the righteous.

¹² The hearing ear and the seeing eye, Jehovah made them both.

¹⁸ The deaf will be able to hear the words of the book read to them. The blind will be freed from gloom and darkness.

³ Their eyes and ears will be open to the needs of the people. ⁴ They will not be impatient any longer, but they will act with understanding and will pay attention to the needs of the people.

¹⁶ »I will lead my blind people by roads they have never traveled. I will turn their darkness into light and make rough country smooth before them. I will keep my promises without fail.«

⁸ »Bring the people who are blind but still have eyes, the people who are deaf but still have ears.

⁴ The Lord Jehovah will teach me what to say, so I will know how to encourage tired people. Morning after morning he will wake me to listen like a student.

⁶ »I, Jehovah, have called you and have given you power to see that justice is done on earth. I will make a covenant with all peoples and bring light (truth) (light of instruction) (Psalm 27:1) to the nations through you. ⁷ »You will open the eyes of the blind and set free those who sit in dark prisons.

⁸ »You have never heard about them. You have never known about them. Your ears have never been open to hear them before. I know that you have acted very treacherously and that you have been called a rebel since you were born.

¹⁰ »To whom can I speak and give warning that they may hear? Their ears are closed and they cannot listen. Behold, the word of Jehovah has become a reproach to them. They have no delight in it.

²⁷ Jesus left that place and walked along the road. Two blind men followed him. They shouted: »Have mercy on us, Son of David!« ²⁸ He went into a nearby house. The blind men followed him. Jesus asked them: »Do you believe that I can heal you?« They said: »Yes Lord.« ²⁹ He touched their eyes. »Let it be done,« he said, »according to your faith.« ³⁰ Their eyes were opened. Jesus strictly warned them: »Do not let anyone know about this.«

³ They asked Jesus: »Are you the Expected One or should we look for another?« ⁴ And Jesus answered: »Go tell John the things you hear and see. ⁵ »The blind receive their sight. The lame walk! The lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear. The dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.

²² Someone possessed with a demon, blind and dumb was brought to him. He healed him and the dumb man spoke and could see.

³⁰ Two blind men sitting by the side of the road heard Jesus pass by and cried out: »Have mercy on us, O Lord, Son of David!« ³¹ The crowd told them to be quiet. But they cried even more, saying: »Have mercy on us, O Lord, you Son of David!« ³² Jesus stood still and asked them: »What do you want me to do to you?« ³³ They said: »Lord give us our sight.« ³⁴ Jesus had compassion on them and touched their eyes. Now they could see! So they followed him.

¹⁴ The blind and the crippled came to him in the Temple, and he made them well.

³² They brought a deaf man with an impediment in his speech to him and asked him to lay his hands on him. ³³ Jesus took him aside from the crowd privately, and put his fingers into his ears, and he spat, and touched his tongue. ³⁴ Looking up to heaven he sighed and said to him: »Ephphatha, that is, be opened.« ³⁵ His ears were opened. His tongue was freed and he spoke plainly. ³⁶ Jesus told them not to tell anyone. The more he told them not to talk the more they talked. ³⁷ They were beside themselves with amazement saying: He makes even the deaf hear and the dumb speak.

²² They arrived at Bethsaida. A blind man was brought to him with the request to touch him. ²³ He held the blind man’s hand and led him out of the village. Then he spit on his eyes and laid his hands on him. He asked him: »Do you see?« ²⁴ He answered: »I see men. They look like trees walking.« ²⁵ He laid his hands on his eyes again and his vision was fully restored, he saw everything clearly.

²⁵ When Jesus saw the people he ordered the unclean spirit to come out of him. He commanded the spirit that caused the loss of voice and hearing to leave and never return to him. ²⁶ The spirit cried out and shook the child violently. It came out and the child became like a dead person. Most of them said: »He is dead.«

¹⁸ »The Spirit of Jehovah is upon me. He anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to proclaim release to the captives, and recovering of sight to the blind. To set at liberty those who are bruised.

²⁰ When the men found him they said: »John the Baptist sent us. Are you the one who comes or should we look for another?« ²¹ In that hour he cured many diseases, plagues and evil spirits. Sight was restored to the blind. ²² He answered John’s disciples: »Go and tell John the things you have seen and heard. The blind receive their sight! The lame walk and lepers are cleansed. The deaf hear! The dead are raised up and the poor have good news preached to them. ²³ »Blessed is he who is not offended by me.«

¹ He saw a man who was blind from birth. ² His disciples asked him: »Rabbi he was born blind. Who sinned, this man or his parents?« ³ Jesus answered: »This man did not sin. Neither did his parents sin. The works of God should be made known in him. ⁴ »We must work the works of him that sent me while it is day. When the night comes no man can work. ⁵ »When I am in the world, I am the light of the world.« ⁶ He spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle. Then he anointed the eyes of the blind with the clay. ⁷ He told him: »Go wash in the pool of Siloam.« He went there and washed. And he could see!

³⁹ Jesus said: »I came into the world for this judgment that those not seeing may see and those seeing may become blind.«

³⁷ Some of them said: »This man opened the eyes of the blind. Could he have prevented this man from dying?«

¹⁷ Ananias went his way. He entered the house and put his hands on him and said, »Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared to you along the road sent me, that you might receive your sight, and be filled with the Holy Spirit.« ¹⁸ Immediately something like scales fell from his eyes and he received sight. He got up and was baptized.

¹⁸ »To open their eyes, and to turn them from darkness to light, and from the power of Satan to God. They may receive forgiveness of sins, and inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

¹⁷ May the God of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of glory, give you a spirit (mental disposition) of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of him. ¹⁸ Have the eyes of your heart enlightened, that you may know the hope of his calling, the riches of his glorious inheritance in the holy ones,

¹⁴ For this reason it says: »Awake, sleeper, and arise from the dead, and Christ will shine on you.«