Meet God in Scripture

Meet God in Luke 18:43

“And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.”

Luke 18:43 (KJV)

Six ways to encounter God here

A passage is not only to be understood; it is to be lived with. Choose how you want to meet God in Luke 18:43, and Living Bread opens it right there.

Read itSit with the words themselves in The Word.Study itContext, cross-references, and questions in Bible Study.Be still in itLet it quiet you in the Sanctuary.Pray itTurn it into a prayer of your own.Hide it in your heartMemorize it, word by word.Encounter it togetherGather a few people to walk through it.

The passage in its setting

Meeting God in a verse begins with hearing it where it lives, in the flow of Luke 18. Read it slowly, and let the focal verse settle into its own context.

41 Saying, What wilt thou that I shall do unto thee? And he said, Lord, that I may receive my sight.

42 And Jesus said unto him, Receive thy sight: thy faith hath saved thee.

43 And immediately he received his sight, and followed him, glorifying God: and all the people, when they saw it, gave praise unto God.

The web of Scripture around it

Where this passage echoes across the Bible, from the cross-reference graph, 14 connected Scriptures. Each one is a door to meet God there too.

  • Psalms 146:8The LORD openeth the eyes of the blind: the LORD raiseth them that are bowed down: the LORD loveth the righteous:
  • 2 Thessalonians 1:10When he shall come to be glorified in his saints, and to be admired in all them that believe (because our testimony among you was believed) in that day.
  • Isaiah 43:7Even every one that is called by my name: for I have created him for my glory, I have formed him; yea, I have made him.
  • Psalms 103:1Bless the LORD, O my soul: and all that is within me, bless his holy name.
  • Isaiah 42:16And I will bring the blind by a way that they knew not; I will lead them in paths that they have not known: I will make darkness light before them, and crooked things straight. These things …
  • Psalms 30:2O LORD my God, I cried unto thee, and thou hast healed me.
  • Acts 11:18When they heard these things, they held their peace, and glorified God, saying, Then hath God also to the Gentiles granted repentance unto life.
  • Matthew 11:5The blind receive their sight, and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to them.
  • Psalms 107:15Oh that men would praise the LORD for his goodness, and for his wonderful works to the children of men!
  • Luke 17:15And one of them, when he saw that he was healed, turned back, and with a loud voice glorified God,
  • John 9:39And Jesus said, For judgment I am come into this world, that they which see not might see; and that they which see might be made blind.
  • John 9:5As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.
  • Isaiah 35:5Then the eyes of the blind shall be opened, and the ears of the deaf shall be unstopped.
  • Isaiah 29:18And in that day shall the deaf hear the words of the book, and the eyes of the blind shall see out of obscurity, and out of darkness.

More to meet God in Luke

Luke 1:37Luke 6:31Luke 24:44Luke 6:21Luke 4:18Luke 24:47Luke 10:2Luke 13:34Luke 11:2Luke 6:23Luke 11:9Luke 18:13Luke 8:15Luke 18:14

How it points to Christ

Every Scripture ultimately leads to Jesus. See how the whole Bible points to Him in Christ in all Scripture, then meet Him for yourself.