This same ninth chapter of Isaiah, which we read so often at Christmas as the annunciation of the coming of Christ — and of which the cadences are woven into our minds through the great music of Handel's Messiah — continues with words which bred the belief in a coming political Messiah such as Jesus refused to become. (religion-online.org)
In the ninth chapter of John, Jesus and His disciples come across a blind man. (relevantmagazine.com)