Yahweh opens the eyes of the blind. Yahweh raises up those who are bowed down. Yahweh loves the righteous.
⛓ Read Psalm 146 forward — the whole chapter and its afterlife →Where this passage surfaces again, sorted by the strength of the link. Each kind of reuse — formal quotation, deliberate allusion, faint echo, figural pattern — carries its own mark. Follow any reference to read it in place.
Allusion4
A deliberate verbal borrowing without a citation formula.
'The LORD opens the eyes of the blind' names eye-opening as a distinctly divine work, undergirding 'if this man were not from God he could do nothing.' The man reasons exactly along the psalm's lines, attributing a God-only act to Jesus. Strong Coherence with John's high Christology.
Medium confidence'The LORD raises up those who are bowed down' supplies the precise theological image of the bent woman 'made straight,' identifying Jesus' act with the LORD's characteristic work. Medium Volume; the verbal match (bowed down / raised) is striking.
Medium confidence'The LORD opens the eyes of the blind' attributes sight-giving to God, so that the crowd's praising God when the blind man sees enacts this psalm's confession of God who heals. Coheres with the closing 'glorifying God' and the Davidic-mercy frame. Medium volume.
Medium confidence'The LORD opens the eyes of the blind,' a direct attribution to God of the act Jesus performs, framing the healing as divine work. The psalm's catalogue of the LORD's saving deeds for the afflicted coheres with the beggar's restoration. The verbal match on opening blind eyes raises the allusion above generic.
Medium confidenceEcho2
A fainter, low-volume reuse, carried by recurrence or thematic coherence.
'The LORD opens the eyes of the blind.' The psalm ascribes eye-opening to the LORD himself; Jesus performing it implies the same divine agency the crowd marveled at in 9:8.
Medium confidence'The LORD opens the eyes of the blind; the LORD raises up those who are bowed down' — the God of Israel as healer of these conditions, glorified in 15:31.
Low confidence