Matthew 8:23

The Lord Yahweh’s Spirit is on me, because Yahweh has anointed me to preach good news to the humble. He has sent me to bind up the broken hearted, to proclaim liberty to the captives and release to those who are bound,

“The Spirit of the Lord is on me, because he has anointed me to preach good news to the poor. He has sent me to heal the broken hearted, to proclaim release to the captives, recovering of sight to the blind, to deliver those who are crushed,

Leaving Nazareth, he came and lived in Capernaum, which is by the sea, in the region of Zebulun and Naphtali,

For he will deliver the needy when he cries; the poor, who has no helper.

“Hear, you deaf, and look, you blind, that you may see.

Jesus went about in all Galilee, teaching in their synagogues, preaching the Good News of the Kingdom, and healing every disease and every sickness among the people.

When he came into Capernaum, a centurion came to him, asking him,

When he entered again into Capernaum after some days, it was heard that he was in the house.

When Jesus had crossed back over in the boat to the other side, a great multitude was gathered to him; and he was by the sea.

When Jesus returned, the multitude welcomed him, for they were all waiting for him.

Listen, my beloved brothers. Didn’t God choose those who are poor in this world to be rich in faith, and heirs of the Kingdom which he promised to those who love him?

Now Ephron was sitting in the middle of the children of Heth. Ephron the Hittite answered Abraham in the hearing of the children of Heth, even of all who went in at the gate of his city, saying,

and the priest shall go out of the camp. The priest shall examine him. Behold, if the plague of leprosy is healed in the leper,

I was eyes to the blind, and feet to the lame.

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

In that day, the deaf will hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind will see out of obscurity and out of darkness.

I will bring the blind by a way that they don’t know. I will lead them in paths that they don’t know. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight. I will do these things, and I will not forsake them.

Bring out the blind people who have eyes, and the deaf who have ears.

Behold, I will bring them from the north country, and gather them from the uttermost parts of the earth, along with the blind and the lame, the woman with child and her who travails with child together. They will return as a great company.

But I will leave among you an afflicted and poor people, and they will take refuge in Yahweh’s name.

It was broken in that day; and thus the poor of the flock that listened to me knew that it was Yahweh’s word.

“Don’t give that which is holy to the dogs, neither throw your pearls before the pigs, lest perhaps they trample them under their feet, and turn and tear you to pieces.

Now when Jesus saw great multitudes around him, he gave the order to depart to the other side.

He entered into a boat, and crossed over, and came into his own city.

The blind and the lame came to him in the temple, and he healed them.

In that hour he cured many of diseases and plagues and evil spirits; and to many who were blind he gave sight.

All the people of the surrounding country of the Gadarenes asked him to depart from them, for they were very much afraid. Then he entered into the boat and returned.

Nathanael said to him, “Can any good thing come out of Nazareth?” Philip said to him, “Come and see.”

In these lay a great multitude of those who were sick, blind, lame, or paralyzed, waiting for the moving of the water;

The man answered them, “How amazing! You don’t know where he comes from, yet he opened my eyes.

For unclean spirits came out of many of those who had them. They came out, crying with a loud voice. Many who had been paralyzed and lame were healed.

to open their eyes, that they may turn from darkness to light and from the power of Satan to God, that they may receive remission of sins and an inheritance among those who are sanctified by faith in me.’

where your fathers tested me and tried me, and saw my deeds for forty years.

He who acts unjustly, let him act unjustly still. He who is filthy, let him be filthy still. He who is righteous, let him do righteousness still. He who is holy, let him be holy still.”

Jesus answered them, “Go and tell John the things which you have seen and heard: that the blind receive their sight, the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have good news preached to them.