John 9 Blind Man
9 now as jesus passed by he saw a man who was blind from birth.
John 9 blind man. He spat on the ground made clay of the spittle and covered the man s eyes with the clay. Jesus heals a man born blind. His disciples asked him rabbi who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind.
Without jesus millions are spiritually blind today. 4 as long as it is day we must do the works of him who sent me. The blind man emerges from these pages in john as one of the most attractive figures of the gospels.
He then sent him to wash his face in the pool of siloam. Scripture reading john 9 1 12 this happened so that the works of god might be displayed in him john 9 3 the disciples see a man who was born blind and they assume that his blindness is someone s fault. 2 and his disciples asked him saying rabbi who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind 3 jesus answered neither this man nor his parents sinned but that the works of god should be revealed in him.
The disciples react to this situation with the typical worldview of their era. His own or that of his parents. 9 as he went along he saw a man blind from birth.
John 9 niv. V this clever and voluble blind man is quite different from the obtuse and unimaginative paralytic of ch. He did this for the blind man here.
A man born blind receives sight. Jesus must touch our eyes so that we can see. John chapter 9 opens with jesus passing by a man who has been blind his entire life.
Although the sabbath setting and the accusation against jesus create a similarity between this miracle and the healing of the man at the pool of bethesda in ch. What is the cause of his blindness. As he went along he saw a man blind from birth.
Jesus heals the man born blind john 9 1 7 the question. This was a common way of thinking about suffering in those days. The man born blind 9 1 as he went along he saw a man blind from birth 9 1 the blind man may have been in the custom of asking for alms near the gate to the temple acts 3 2 so that people in a merciful mood might drop a coin or two in his hands.
In their minds suffering is always a punishment for something so they ask jesus whose sin this man is suffering for. 2 his disciples asked him rabbi who sinned this man or his parents that he was born blind 3 neither this man nor his parents sinned said jesus but this happened so that the works of god might be displayed in him.
