John 9:1

CHAPTER IX.

JESUS AND THE BLIND MAN (John 9:1-41)

This miracle is reported only by John,. fact that is not strange when we remember that he alone gives. report of the ministry in Judea in which it occurred. The time cannot be certainly determined. Some have supposed that it occurred on the same day, only. few moments after Christ had escaped from the attempt to stone him; others regard it improbable that he should have stopped at such. moment to perform. miracle. All that is certain is that it was on the Sabbath day;. fact that intensified the animosity of his strict, sanctimonious, but unscrupulous enemies. We are, however, inclined to think that it occurred on the same day as the events of the last chapter.

1. And as Jesus passed by, he saw. man which was blind from his birth.

The last verse of the preceding chapter states that Jesus, "going through the midst of them, so passed by." This chapter begins, "As Jesus passed by." When we remember that there was no break into Chapter s when John wrote the passage, it seems certain that he designed to say that this occurred immediately after. In this case it was Jesus who came to the blind man, not the blind man to him. Blindness from birth is usually incurable by modern science. Like most such unfortunates then, the man was. beggar. See verse 8.