John Ch.9
Jesus Heals a Man Born Blind ~ Psalm 146:8 Jesus, completely unperturbed by the confrontation of before (in ch.8), is still walking in the temple area. Ch.9 1 As he passed by, he saw a man blind from birth. 2 And his disciples asked him, “Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” Although it is true that all sickness and disease can be traced back to the sin of Genesis 3:6-7, the inbred notion of the people, on tablets (hearts) of stone, is that if someone has an infirmity (especially one from birth), it was the result of a sinful ancestral lineage. (This way if thinking could stem from the rabbis’ interpretations of Exodus 20:5; or from any one of a miriad of fables and theories they were teaching the people). Jesus, with great, authoritative MERCY, is about to overturn this notion, just as he overturned the money-changers tables in ch.2. 3 Jesus answered, “It was not that this man sinned, or his parents, but that th...