#17: “Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind” (Part 2)
SCRIPTURE: John 9:13-41
13 They brought to the Pharisees the man who had formerly been
blind.
14 Now it was a Sabbath day when Jesus made the mud and opened his
eyes.
15 So the Pharisees again asked him how he had received his sight. And he
said to them, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and I see.”
16 Some of the Pharisees said, “This man is not from God, for he does not keep the Sabbath.”
But others said, “How can a man who is a sinner do such signs?” And there was
a division among them.
17 So they said again to the blind man, “What do you say
about him, since he has opened your eyes?” He said, “He is a prophet.”
18 The Jews did not believe that he had been blind and had received his
sight, until they called the parents of the man who had received his sight
19 and asked them, “Is this your son, who you say was born blind? How then does he
now see?”
20 His parents answered, “We know that this is our son and that he
was born blind.
21 But how he now sees we do not know, nor do we know who
opened his eyes. Ask him; he is of age. He will speak for himself.”
22 (His parents said these things because they feared the Jews, for the Jews had
already agreed that if anyone should confess Jesus to be Christ, he was to be
put out of the synagogue.)
23 Therefore his parents said, “He is of age; ask him.”
24 So for the second time they called the man who had been blind and said
to him, “Give glory to God. We know that this man is a sinner.”
25 He answered, “Whether he is a sinner I do not know. One thing I do know, that though I was
blind, now I see.”
26 They said to him, “What did he do to you? How did he open
your eyes?”
27 He answered them, “I have told you already, and you would not
listen. Why do you want to hear it again? Do you also want to become his
disciples?”
28 And they reviled him, saying, “You are his disciple, but we are
disciples of Moses.
29 We know that God has spoken to Moses, but as for this
man, we do not know where he comes from.”
30 The man answered, “Why, this is an amazing thing! You do not know where he comes from, and yet he opened my eyes.
31 We know that God does not listen to sinners, but if anyone is a
worshiper of God and does his will, God listens to him.
32 Never since the world began has it been heard that anyone opened the eyes of a man born blind.
33 If this man were not from God, he could do nothing.”
34 They answered him, “You were born in utter sin, and would you teach us?” And they cast him out.
35 Jesus heard that they had cast him out, and having found him he
said, “Do you believe in the Son of Man?”
36 He answered, “And who is he, sir, that I may believe in him?”
37 Jesus said to him, “You have seen him, and it is he
who is speaking to you.”
38 He said, “Lord, I believe,” and he worshiped
him.
39 Jesus said, “For judgment I came into this world, that those who do not do not
see may see, and those who see may become blind.”
40 Some of the Pharisees near him heard these things, and said to him, “Are we also blind?”
41 Jesus said
to them, “If you were blind, you would have no guilt; but now that you say, ‘We
see,’ your guilt remains.”