CHAPTER NINE
If it were not so tragic, this ninth chapter would be comical. Here is
a man blind from birth healed by the Nazarene and the Pharisees,
rather than accept the evident fact that Jesus had healed him, chose
to question the man's former blindness. Next, his parents, out of
cowardice, pass... [ Continue Reading ]
A BLIND MAN HEALED
_Text 9:1-12_
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As he passed by, he saw a man blind from his birth.
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And his disciples asked him, saying, Rabbi, who sinned, this man, or
his parents, that he should be born blind?
3
Jesus answered, Neither did this man sin, nor his parents: but that
the works of God shoul... [ Continue Reading ]
THE BLIND MAN INVESTIGATED
_Text 9:13-23_
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They bring to the Pharisees him that aforetime was blind.
14
Now it was the sabbath on the day when Jesus made the clay, and opened
his eyes.
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Again therefore the Pharisees also asked him how he received his
sight. And he said unto them, He put c... [ Continue Reading ]
THE QUESTIONED BECOMES QUESTIONER
_Text 9:24-34_
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So they called a second time the man that was blind, and said unto
him, Give glory to God: we know that this man is a sinner.
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He therefore answered, Whether he is a sinner, I know not: one thing I
know, that, whereas I was blind, now I see.... [ Continue Reading ]
BLINDNESS INDEED!
_Text 9:35-41_
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Jesus heard that they had cast him out; and finding him, he said, Dost
thou believe on the Son of God?
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He answered and said, And who is he, Lord, that I may believe on him?
37
Jesus said unto him, Thou hast both seen him, and he it is that
speaketh with... [ Continue Reading ]