Luk 7:22 | NETfull | STEP | 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.

Luke 7:22

22 So ^{▼▼ Here καί (kai) has been translated as “so” to indicate the relationship to Jesus’ miraculous cures in the preceding sentence.} he answered them, ^{▼▼ Grk “answering, he said to them.” This is redundant in English and has been simplified in the translation to “he answered them.”} “Go tell ^{▼▼ The same verb has been translated “inform” in 7:18.} John what you have seen and heard: ^{▼▼ What you have seen and heard. The following activities all paraphrase various OT descriptions of the time of promised salvation: Isa 35:5–6; 26:19; 29:18–19; 61:1. Jesus is answering not by acknowledging a title, but by pointing to the nature of his works, thus indicating the nature of the time.} The blind see, the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, the ^{▼▼ Grk “and the,” but καί (kai) has not been translated since English normally uses a coordinating conjunction only between the last two elements in a series of three or more.} deaf hear, the dead are raised, the poor have good news proclaimed to them.