²¹ “How long has this been happening?” Jesus asked the boy’s father.

He replied, “Since he was a little boy.

³³ There he met a man named Aeneas, who had been paralyzed and bedridden for eight years.

Paul and Barnabas in Lystra and Derbe

⁸ While they were at Lystra, Paul and Barnabas came upon a man with crippled feet. He had been that way from birth, so he had never walked. He was sitting

²² for this miraculous sign—the healing of a man who had been lame for more than forty years.

² As they approached the Temple, a man lame from birth was being carried in. Each day he was put beside the Temple gate, the one called the Beautiful Gate, so he could beg from the people going into the Temple.

²⁰ His parents replied, “We know this is our son and that he was born blind, ²¹ but we don’t know how he can see or who healed him. Ask him. He is old enough to speak for himself.”

Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind

9 As Jesus was walking along, he saw a man who had been blind from birth.

⁵ One of the men lying there had been sick for thirty-eight years. ⁶ When Jesus saw him and knew he had been ill for a long time, he asked him, “Would you like to get well?”

¹⁶ This dear woman, a daughter of Abraham, has been held in bondage by Satan for eighteen years. Isn’t it right that she be released, even on the Sabbath?”

⁴³ A woman in the crowd had suffered for twelve years with constant bleeding,^[a] and she could find no cure.