(Ref. Texts: 1Sam 16:1b.6–7.10–13a; Eph 5:8–14; John 9:1–41)
Contents
Introduction
John chapter nine (John 9) is meant to show that things are not always the way they look and the way we think. As Isaiah (55:8) rightly pointed out, God’s ways are quite different from the human way. In John 4:5–42, Jesus succeeded in making the Samaritans understand that discrimination is not of God, but of the evil one. This he did by engaging the Samaritan woman in a conversation that later involved the entire Samaritans of Sychar, and culminated in believing in Jesus and recognizing him as the messiah. Their joy and faith were so intense that they invited Jesus to stay with them in their town. Surprisingly, Jesus spent two days with them before proceeding to Jerusalem. Having given the Samaritans who recognized him as the messiah the living water, Jesus now confronts the Jews to destroy the bridge that is preventing them from participating in the living water. Will he succeed? The end of the story will clarify.
Who sinned?
“As he passed by he saw a man blind from birth. His disciples asked him, Rabbi, who sinned, this man or his parents, that he was born blind?” (John 9:1–2). When Jesus told the Jews that their father Abraham rejoiced at the thought of seeing his day, and that he saw it and was glad, they wondered how Jesus could have seen Abraham when he was not even fifty years old. At such conclusion, Jesus told them that before Abraham was born, he was already (John 8:56–58). On hearing this blasphemy (in their understanding), they wanted to stone him, but Jesus slipped away from their presence (John 8:59). As Jesus walked away from the temple premise, he saw this blind mendicant. The disciples confronted.….…
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