“Lord I Believe!” John 9:38
Jesus was in the Temple in an intense dialog with the Jews. As He revealed that He was, “I Am,” they picked up stones to throw at Him but He was hidden from them and escaped from the Temple. Seeing a man who had been blind from birth, Jesus healed him “so that the works of God might be displayed in him.” Jesus anointed the eyes of this man with a mixture of spit and dust and then sent him to wash himself in the waters of the pool of Siloam. The man came back healed declaring that Jesus was a prophet.
The Jews could not, did not want to believe that the man had been healed by Jesus. They questioned him, saying give glory to God, the man who you say healed you is a sinner. Celidonius, the name that tradition gives this now sighted man, replied “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” Confused, bitter, upset and angry the Jews threw Celidonius out, denying him access to the Temple. An outcast from birth by his blindness, then regaining sight and freedom of bias through Jesus, now again Celidonius found himself cast out. Then Jesus found him and asked the question that we are also asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?
Question of the week: What question did the disciples ask Jesus about the man who had been blind from birth?
Answer: His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” John 9:2
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“Lord I Believe!” John 9:38
Jesus was in the Temple in an intense dialog with the Jews. As He revealed that He was, “I Am,” they picked up stones to throw at Him but He was hidden from them and escaped from the Temple. Seeing a man who had been blind from birth, Jesus healed him “so that the works of God might be displayed in him.” Jesus anointed the eyes of this man with a mixture of spit and dust and then sent him to wash himself in the waters of the pool of Siloam. The man came back healed declaring that Jesus was a prophet.
The Jews could not, did not want to believe that the man had been healed by Jesus. They questioned him, saying give glory to God, the man who you say healed you is a sinner. Celidonius, the name that tradition gives this now sighted man, replied “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was blind, now I see.” Confused, bitter, upset and angry the Jews threw Celidonius out, denying him access to the Temple. An outcast from birth by his blindness, then regaining sight and freedom of bias through Jesus, now again Celidonius found himself cast out. Then Jesus found him and asked the question that we are also asked, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?
Question: What question did the disciples ask Jesus about the man who had been blind from birth?
Answer: His disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” John 9:2
