As the Pharisees call the blind man in for a second round of questioning, one thing becomes clear -- that anything but the truth sets a disastrous course. The Pharisees continue to press for an outcome that requires denying the truth about who Jesus truly is. The healed man only makes matters worse when he offers not only the truth, but verbal jabs as well. Earlier, Jesus had said that the truth would set us free. Here we see that anything less or more only sets us on a course for disaster.
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For Reflection:
The Pharisees' resistance to the truth is about what is going on in their own hearts, what is going on between them and Jesus.
- The Pharisees were afraid of the truth about Jesus but they tried to make it everyone else's problem, and thus they became a problem for everyone else. How might you avoid the same troubles (cf. Matthew 7:5:)?
- The healed man did better when he did not take it personally. How might fare better by not taking it personally if others have a resistance to the truth (cf. Romans 12:20)?
