John 10:21
Good News Translation
But others were saying, "A man with a demon could not talk like this! How could a demon give sight to blind people?"

New Revised Standard Version
Others were saying, “These are not the words of one who has a demon. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind?”

Contemporary English Version
But others said, "How could anyone with a demon in him say these things? No one like this could give sight to a blind person!"

New American Bible
Others said, “These are not the words of one possessed; surely a demon cannot open the eyes of the blind, can he?”

Douay-Rheims Bible
Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind?

Can.

John 9:6,32 When he had said these things, he spat on the ground and made clay of the spittle and spread the clay upon his eyes, . . .

Exodus 4:11 The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

Exodus 8:19 And the magicians said to Pharao: This is the finger of God. And Pharao's heart was hardened, and he hearkened not unto them, as the Lord had commanded.

Psalm 94:9 He that planted the ear, shall he not hear? or he that formed the eye, doth he not consider?

Psalm 146:8 The Lord enlighteneth the blind. The Lord lifteth up them that are cast down: the Lord loveth the just.

Proverbs 20:12 The hearing ear, and the seeing eye, the Lord hath made them both.

Isaiah 35:5,6 Then shall the eyes of the blind be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped. . . .

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.

Context
Jesus the Good Shepherd
20And many of them said: He hath a devil and is mad. Why hear you him? 21Others said: These are not the words of one that hath a devil. Can a devil open the eyes of the blind? 22And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was winter.…
Cross References
Exodus 4:11
The Lord said to him: Who made man's mouth? or who made the dumb and the deaf, the seeing and the blind? did not I?

Matthew 4:24
And his fame went throughout all Syria, and they presented to him all sick people that were taken with divers diseases and torments, and such as were possessed by devils, and lunatics, and those that had the palsy, and he cured them:

John 9:32
From the beginning of the world it hath not been heard, that any man hath opened the eyes of one born blind.

John 10:22
And it was the feast of the dedication at Jerusalem: and it was winter.

John 10:20
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