Lexicon :: Strong's G3788 - ophthalmos

“If your right eye causes you to sin, gouge it out and throw it away. For it is better that you lose one of the parts of your body than for your whole body to be thrown into hell.

“You have heard that it was said, An eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth.

“The eye is the lamp of the body. If your eye is healthy, your whole body will be full of light.

“Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye?

Then he touched their eyes, saying, “Let it be done for you according to your faith.”

“For this people’s heart has grown callous;

their ears are hard of hearing,

and they have shut their eyes;

otherwise they might see with their eyes,

and hear with their ears, and

understand with their hearts,

and turn back —

and I would heal them.

When they looked up they saw no one except Jesus alone.

“And if your eye causes you to fall away, gouge it out and throw it away. It is better for you to enter life with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hellfire.[fn]

“Don’t I have the right to do what I want with what is mine? Are you jealous[fn] because I’m generous? ’[fn]

“Lord,” they said to him, “open our eyes.”

Jesus said to them, “Have you never read in the Scriptures:

The stone that the builders rejected

has become the cornerstone.[fn]

This is what the Lord has done

and it is wonderful in our eyes?

And he came again and found them sleeping, because they could not keep their eyes open.

“adulteries, greed, evil actions, deceit, self-indulgence, envy,[fn] slander, pride, and foolishness.

“Do you have eyes and not see; do you have ears and not hear? And do you not remember?

Again Jesus placed his hands on the man’s eyes. The man looked intently and his sight was restored and he saw everything clearly.

“And if your eye causes you to fall away, gouge it out. It is better for you to enter the kingdom of God with one eye than to have two eyes and be thrown into hell,

“This came about from the Lord

and is wonderful in our eyes? ”

And again he came and found them sleeping, because they could not keep their eyes open. They did not know what to say to him.

For my eyes have seen your salvation.

He then rolled up the scroll, gave it back to the attendant, and sat down. And the eyes of everyone in the synagogue were fixed on him.

Then looking up at his disciples, he said:

Blessed are you who are poor,

because the kingdom of God is yours.

“Why do you look at the splinter in your brother’s eye, but don’t notice the beam of wood in your own eye?

Then turning to his disciples he said privately, “Blessed are the eyes that see the things you see!

“Your eye is the lamp of the body. When your eye is healthy, your whole body is also full of light. But when it is bad, your body is also full of darkness.

“And being in torment in Hades, he looked up and saw Abraham a long way off, with Lazarus at his side.

“But the tax collector, standing far off, would not even raise his eyes to heaven but kept striking his chest and saying, ‘God, have mercy on me,[fn] a sinner! ’

saying, “If you knew this day what would bring peace ​— ​but now it is hidden from your eyes.

But they[fn] were prevented from recognizing him.

Then their eyes were opened, and they recognized him, but he disappeared from their sight.

“Don’t you say, ‘There are still four more months, and then comes the harvest’? Listen to what I’m telling you: Open[fn] your eyes and look at the fields, because they are ready[fn] for harvest.

So when Jesus looked up and noticed a huge crowd coming toward him, he asked Philip, “Where will we buy bread so that these people can eat? ”

After he said these things he spit on the ground, made some mud from the saliva, and spread the mud on his eyes.

So they asked him, “Then how were your eyes opened? ”

The day that Jesus made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

Again they asked the blind man, “What do you say about him, since he opened your eyes? ”

“He’s a prophet,” he said.

“But we don’t know how he now sees, and we don’t know who opened his eyes. Ask him; he’s of age. He will speak for himself.”

Then they asked him, “What did he do to you? How did he open your eyes? ”

“This is an amazing thing! ” the man told them. “You don’t know where he is from, and yet he opened my eyes.

“Throughout history[fn] no one has ever heard of someone opening the eyes of a person born blind.

Others were saying, “These aren’t the words of someone who is demon-possessed. Can a demon open the eyes of the blind? ”

But some of them said, “Couldn’t he who opened the blind man’s eyes also have kept this man from dying? ”

So they removed the stone. Then Jesus raised his eyes and said, “Father, I thank you that you heard me.