The joy of an eye-opening miracle creates immediate awe and attention. The clamor almost overshadowing the life-changing experience itself. How could a man born-blind have sight? Fake news pundits were decrying the event and even the identity of the healed man.
"Think not that I came to bring peace..." said Jesus. A choice is mandated of those who receive a visitation by God, the receiver of the gift and of the watchers.
Every act of obedience to the Father by Jesus declared, "It's not like you think." Quite a challenge to those who are professionals in "God's business". Established circumstances, regulations, and protocol dictates who is and is not eligible to receive from God.
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John 9:1-41
As Jesus walked along on a Sabbath he saw a man who had been born blind from birth.
Jesus’ disciples said to him:
“Master, who did sin, this man, or his parents, that he was born blind?”
Jesus answered them, saying:
“Neither hath this man sinned, nor his parents; but that the works of God should be made manifest in him. I must work the works of him that sent me, while it is day. The night cometh, when no man can work. As long as I am in the world, I am the light of the world.”
As soon as he had finished speaking, Jesus spat on the ground, made a soft mass of clay with the spittle, and placed it, as an ointment, on the eyes of the blind man.
Then he said to the man:
“Go, wash in the pool of Siloam.”
The blind man went to the pool, and when he had washed his eyes he could see.
Acquaintances who saw him said:
“Is this not he that sat and begged?”
Some said:
“This is he.”
Others said:
“He is like him.”
The man who had been blind said:
“I am he.”
Thereupon he was asked:
“How were thine eyes opened?”
He replied:
“A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, ‘Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash.’ And I went and washed, and I received sight.”
The man was asked:
“Where is he?”
He answered:
“I know not.”
The people who had questioned him took the man who had been blind to the Pharisees.
When the Pharisees asked him how he had...
