Psa 146:8, Isa 35:5, 42:7, 52:13, Joh 9:7-26 | ESV | STEP | the Lord opens the eyes of the blind . The Lord lifts up those who are bowed down ; the Lord loves the righteous .

Psalms 146:8

8 ^athe Lord opens the eyes of the blind.
^bThe Lord lifts up those who are bowed down;
^cthe Lord loves the righteous.

Isaiah 35:5

5 ^dThen the eyes of the blind shall be opened,
and the ears of the deaf unstopped;

Isaiah 42:7

7 ^eto open the eyes that are blind,
to bring out the prisoners from the dungeon,
^ffrom the prison those who sit in darkness.

Isaiah 52:13

He Was Pierced for Our Transgressions

13 Behold, ^gmy servant shall act wisely; ^{▼▼Or shall prosper}
he shall be high and lifted up,
and shall be exalted.

John 9:7-26

7 and said to him, “Go, wash in ⁱthe pool of Siloam” (which means Sent). So he went and washed and ^jcame back seeing.

8 The neighbors and those who had seen him before as a beggar were saying, ^k“Is this not the man who used to sit and beg?” 9 Some said, “It is he.” Others said, “No, but he is like him.” He kept saying, “I am the man.” 10 So they said to him, “Then how were your eyes opened?” 11 He answered, ^l“The man called Jesus made mud and anointed my eyes and said to me, ‘Go to Siloam and wash.’ So I went and washed and received my sight.” 12 They said to him, “Where is he?” He said, “I do not know.”

13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been blind. 14 ^mNow it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes. 15 ⁿSo the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.” 16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not ^ofrom God, ^pfor he does not keep the Sabbath.” But others said, ^q“How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And ^rthere was a division among them. 17 So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, ^s“He is a prophet.”

18 ^tThe Jews ^{▼▼Greek Ioudaioi probably refers here to Jewish religious leaders, and others under their influence, in that time; also verse 22} did not believe that he had been blind and had received his sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight 19 and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he now see?” 20 His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he was born blind. 21 But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.” 22 (His parents said these things ^vbecause they feared the Jews, for ^wthe Jews had already agreed that if anyone should ^xconfess Jesus ^{▼▼Greek him} to be Christ, ^zhe was to be put out of the synagogue.) 23 Therefore his parents said, ^aa“He is of age; ask him.”

24 So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said to him, ^ab“Give glory to God. We know that ^acthis man is a sinner.” 25 He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I ^adwas blind, now I see.” 26 They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes?”